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Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations by Nicole A. Taylor Material:Hardcover of the black races ofThe very first cookbook to celebrate Juneteenth, from food writer and cookbook author Nicole A. Taylorwho draws on her decade of experiences observing the holiday. On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued General Order Number 3, informing the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free. A year later, in 1866, Black