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Field name | Value |
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Reference | TX715 .B585 1912 |
Library/Archive | Michigan State University |
Title | The Southern cookbook: a manual of cooking and list of menus, including recipes used by noted colored cooks and prominent caterers |
Author/Creator | Bivins, S. Thomas |
Date | 1912 |
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 | Hampton, Virginia, USA |
Publisher | Press of the Hampton Institute |
Document Type | Printed Cookbook; Domestic Cookbook |
Theme | Food Preparation; Global and Ethnic Cuisines; Food, Race and Ethnicity; Education and Cooking Schools |
Subjects | cooking techniques recipes game animal products baking seafood desserts fruit vegetables Lent spices canning and preserving confectionery condiments cooking for the sick advice to housekeepers household household management housework commodity: ham commodity: bacon curing dairy produce table setting and decoration domestic service sample menu etiquette |
Cuisine | American cuisine; Southern American cuisine |
Description | A thorough study in domestic service during the early 1900's including recipes, table setting, etiquette, and suggested menus for the home. After attending the Hampton Institute in 1875, Bivins was the principal of the Chester Domestic Training Institute in Chester, Pennsylvania. The school's objective was to raise the domestic vocations to the highest plane, covering cooking, waiting and housekeeping. |
Countries | United States of America |
Places | Hampton Virginia |
Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation © 2020, by the Michigan State University. All rights reserved. |