Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee GirlAuthor: Vertamae Smart Grosvenor Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term "soul food" gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of her cookbook memoir focused on its message of food as a source of pride and validation of black womanhood and black "consciousness raising." In 1959, at the age of nineteen, Smart Grosvenor sailed to