A Date With A Dish by De Knight, Freda - 1948: A Cook Book of American Negro Recipes

NY: Hermitage Press, Inc.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Light brown cloth over boards. Rear board and spine loose from binding; cloth peeling from board on rear; endpapers soiled; some water damage on front board and first few pages. ; 426 pages .

Hermitage, 1948. first. hardcover. very good: binding tight, front pastedown and FFEP covered in pencil and pen annotations, main text has a few pencil markings next to some recipes. offsetting on back endpapers from newspaper bookmark, some toning, bottom corners slightly bumped./poor: large rips along front cover and spine, chipping, missing pieces, price still visible on inside flap ($3.00). first edition first printing of an important historical cookbook by the cooking editor of Ebony Magazine (later reprinted as The Ebony Cookbook in 1962). From the preface: "There has long been a need for a non-regional cook book that would contain recipes, menus, and cooking hints from and by Negroes all over America. I have attempted in these pages to present, along with my own contributions, as complete a collection as can be found anywhere in the land. Recipes new and fresh in the modern manner...recipes ages old brought back to life...original, traditional, and exciting." With a glossary of cooking… Read More

1948 Hermitage Press, Inc., Yellow cloth hardcover with light wear and age toned edges in an unclipped acceptable dust jacket with many taped tears and a few small missing pieces. 9" by 6". A scarce second printing of Freda De Knight's popular cookery book of African American recipes, considered the first of its kind. The second printing, published the same year as the first; this work is scarcely found prior to the third printing of 1970. Written by Freda De Knight, the first food editor of Ebony magazine. This work, considered the first important cookbook by an African-American for an African-American audience, was a best-seller, and pioneering for the working class. Through this work, De Knight reminds readers of the roots of Southern cookery and its multinational heritage. An excellent and scarce signed example of this important African-American cookery book. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart; a little worn to the head and… Read More

New York: Hermitage Press, 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Foreword by Gertrude Blair. Octavo. 426pp. Fine in just about fine dust jacket with nominal rubbing at the spine ends. A superior copy of a well-known and important cookbook by "this extremely charming, brown-skinned little woman" (from the jacket text), who was the cooking editor of *Ebony* magazine. *The Jemima Code* p. 62-3.