''Vibration Cooking: Or, the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl'' is the 1970 debut book by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor and combines recipes with storytelling. It was published by Doubleday. A second edition was published in 1986, and a third edition was published in 1992. The

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published another edition in 2011. Smart-Grosvenor went on to publish more cookbooks after ''Vibration Cooking''. ''Vibration Cooking'' raised awareness about

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culture. Scholar Anne E. Goldman compared ''Vibration Cooking'' with Jessica Harris' ''Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons'', arguing that, in both books, "the model of the self... is historicized by being developed in the context of colonialism." Lewis V. Baldwin recommended ''Vibration Cooking'' for its "interesting and brilliant insights on the social significance of food and eating and their relationship to 'place' in a southern context." The book inspired filmmaker

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to make the film ''

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'', which won awards at the

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