The Blue Grass Cook Book
New York: Fox, Duffield and Company, 1904.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xlii, 350 pp, with 13 plates. Original light blue cloth, no dust jacket. Spined toned but easily legible, light rubbing to extremities; contents clean and sound. Very good. Containing more than 300 recipes, this was one of the first cookbooks to acknowledge the substantive influence of African-Americans on the traditions of southern cooking. Twelve of the 13 plates are from Langdon's photographs showing African-American cooks at work.
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