Beautiful Shades of Brown Hard-Boiled Mystery the sumptuous Sweet Home Café

the sumptuous Sweet Home Café Cookbook takes readers on a deliciously unique journey

the seeping rot of inequality

In an author’s note

the young couple is lured

His talent was unbounded -- a raw force that commanded attention and respect

Beautiful Shades of Brown Hard-Boiled Mystery the sumptuous Sweet Home CaféGrowing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. As a young woman studying art in Paris, she found inspiration in the works of Matisse and Gaugin to paint the people she knew best. Back in Philadelphia, the Harmon Foundation commissioned her to paint portraits of accomplished African Americans. Her portraits still hang in Washington