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Field name | Value |
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Reference | TX715 .B68 1959 |
Library/Archive | Michigan State University |
Title | Plantation recipes |
Author/Creator | Bowers, Lessie |
Date | 1959 |
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, USA |
Publisher | R. Speller |
Document Type | Printed Cookbook; Domestic Cookbook |
Theme | Food Preparation; Global and Ethnic Cuisines; Food, Race and Ethnicity |
Subjects | African American race culinary culture cooking techniques recipes |
Cuisine | Louisiana Creole; New Orleans cuisine |
Description | Includes Publisher's preface. Includes recipes for hush puppies, crab gumbo, creole beef, shrimp jambalaya, corn pudding, apple crisp pudding, dumplings, fried apples etc. Written by Lessie Bowers who was born in the South. She was a graduate of Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina. |
Countries | United States of America |
Places | New York N.Y. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation © 2020, by the Michigan State University. All rights reserved. |