"When I cook, I never measure or weigh anything. I cook by vibration. I can tell by the look and smell of it. Most of the ingredients in this book are approximate. Some of the recipes that people gave me list the amounts, but for my part, I just do it by vibration. Different strokes for different folks. Do your thing your way."--Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Still cooking by the ''vibration'' method (which involves a fetching disregard for measurements or time), Smart-Grosvenor calls this updated volume, titled Vibration Cooking of the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, the ''third coming'' of a book that ''slipped through the cracks for more than two decades and lived.'' Since its first coming in 1970, her cook's tour has passed from hand to hand, enlightening readers on the cooking of South Carolina Gullah culture. The author's prose has kept its kick, as have the recipes for the staples of her youth: grits, greens, and fried chicken.