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Field name | Value |
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Reference | XX TX331 .R64 1827 |
Library/Archive | Michigan State University |
Title | The house servant's directory: or, A monitor for private families: comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of servants' work ... and upwards of 100 various and useful receipts, chiefly compiled for the use of house servants |
Author/Creator | Roberts, Robert |
Date | 1827 |
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 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA |
Publisher | Munroe and Francis; C. S. Francis |
Document Type | Printed Book |
Theme | Food and Gender; Food Economics |
Subjects | domestic service advice to housekeepers household housekeeper housework household management tea coffee service (serving) table setting and decoration desserts etiquette recipes liquors canning and preserving condiments cooking techniques beverages fruit wine inebriation spices alcoholic beverages commodity: milk beer household remedies cider ale carving market |
Countries | United States of America |
Places | Boston Massachusetts |
Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation © 2020, by the Michigan State University. All rights reserved. |