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Field name | Value |
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Reference | XX TX715 .S17 1931 |
Library/Archive | Michigan State University |
Title | Miss Minerva's cook book |
Author/Creator | Sampson, Emma Speed; Lorraine, Helen |
Date | 1931 |
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 | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Publisher | The Reilly & Lee Co. |
Document Type | Printed Cookbook; Domestic Cookbook |
Theme | Food Preparation; Global and Ethnic Cuisines; Food, Race and Ethnicity |
Subjects | cooking techniques recipes vegetables seafood game fruit baking commodity: eggs commodity: cheese dairy produce condiments herbs spices commodity: bread desserts beverages coffee tea canning and preserving pickling confectionery |
Cuisine | American cuisine; Southern American cuisine |
Description | 323 delicious Southern dishes - old and new. Illustrations with captions written in dialect. |
Note | Every care and attention has been paid to preserve the historic authenticity of these documents which range in date from the early sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Any terminology that may be deemed discriminatory or offensive by present-day principles may have been preserved for the historic accuracy and relevance to that particular document. Catalog Records © 2019, by the Michigan State University. All rights reserved. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation © 2020, by the Michigan State University. All rights reserved. |