‘Vibration Cooking’ Is a Cookbook, a Memoir, and a Protest

There are a lot of terms for thoughtful cooking: “intuition,” “Old World,” “cooking with love.” Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor’s was the best. She called it “vibration cooking.” This was also the title of her first cookbook, published in 1970, and she describes vibration cooking in the book’s second, very …