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Field name | Value |
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Reference | TX725.T73 B6 1954 |
Library/Archive | Michigan State University |
Title | La bonne cuisine aux tropiques [colonial cooking] |
Author/Creator | Collingridge, W B |
Date | 1954 |
Collection | Africa |
Collection Overview | There are over 200 African American cookbooks in the collection dating from the early 19th century to the present. The earliest is a first edition of Robert Roberts, 'The House Servant's Directory' (1827), the first cookbook written by a Black American and first book on any subject written by a Black American to have been printed by a commercial publisher. Additionally there are charity cookbooks, Black dialect items, and celebrity cookbooks. The collection is complemented by strong holdings in Caribbean cookery and African cookery. |
Place of Publication | Port Louis, Mauritius |
Publisher | Claude Marrier d'unienville |
Document Type | Printed Cookbook |
Theme | Food and Identity |
Subjects | advice to housekeepers baking seafood vegetables canning and preserving household |
Cuisine | Caribbean cuisine |
Description | Described as: "a simplified and abbreviated treatise on foods and their cooking as they are prepared in some tropical countries, especially Mauritius". Parallel texts in French and English. |
Countries | Mauritius |
Places | Port Louis |
Language | French; English |
Note | Catalog Records © 2019, by the Michigan State University. All rights reserved. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation © 2019, by the Michigan State University. All rights reserved. |