The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks /
Toni Tipton-Martin ; forewords by John Egerton and Barbara Haber.
- First edition.
- xv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Includes index.
Nineteenth-century cookbooks : breaking a stereotype -- 1900-1925, surviving mammyism : cooking lessons for work and home -- 1926-1950, the servant problem : dual messages -- 1951-1960, lifting as we climb : tea cakes, finger sandwiches, community service, and civil rights -- 1961-1970, soul food : mama's cooking leaves home for the city -- 1971-1980, simple pleasures : a soul food revival -- 1981-1990, mammy's makeover : the ever-useful life -- 1991-2011, sweet to the soul : the hope of Jemima.
9780292745483 (cloth)
2014033779
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