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Field name | Value |
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Reference | XX TX715 .E88 1903 |
Library/Archive | Michigan State University |
Title | Cooking in old Créole days: la cuisine Créole à l'usage des petits ménages |
Author/Creator | Eustis, Célestine; Pennington, Harper |
Date | 1903 |
Collection | African American |
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 | New York, New York, USA |
Publisher | R.H. Russell |
Document Type | Printed Cookbook; Domestic Cookbook |
Theme | Food Preparation; Global and Ethnic Cuisines; Food, Race and Ethnicity |
Subjects | cooking techniques recipes vegetables commodity: ham commodity: bread baking confectionery fruit desserts seafood tea condiments herbs advice to housekeepers housekeeper household housework coffee ice cream |
Cuisine | American cuisine; Louisiana Creole; New Orleans cuisine |
Description | A book about preserving the dark arts of the 'black mammies' and their incredible cooking skills. Includes a few sketches and songs. |
Countries | United States of America |
Places | New York N.Y.; New Orleans Louisiana |
Language | English; French |
Additional Information | Includes illustrations and music, with song lyrics in French. Two eds. of 1903 are recorded, one with 129 pages and pagination errors (cf. Brown & Brown, Culinary Americana, number 1153), and this edition, with 112, [1] pages of text. K.G. Bitting, Gastronomic bibliographical, page 148, cites a 1904 edition as having 113 pages of text. Plates have guardsheets with printed music. Integral publisher's ads, [4] pages, and [3] pages of integral blanks at end. |
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