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A Date With a Dish: A Cookbook of American Negro Recipes
by De Knight, Freda
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good: binding tight, front pastedown and FFEP covered in pencil and pen annotations, main text has a few pencil markings ne/poor: large rips along front cover and spine, chipping, missing pieces, price still visible on inside flap ($3.00)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
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 terms, advice for the housewife, brief biographies of some of the people from whom the recipes were collected, etc.
Rare in this condition with dust jacket! #00046.
With a glossary of cooking terms, advice for the housewife, brief biographies of some of the people from whom the recipes were collected, etc.
Rare in this condition with dust jacket! #00046.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80
- Title
- A Date With a Dish
- Author
- De Knight, Freda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: binding tight, front pastedown and FFEP covered in pencil and pen annotations, main text has a few pencil markings ne
- Jacket Condition
- poor: large rips along front cover and spine, chipping, missing pieces, price still visible on inside flap ($3.00)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Publisher
- Hermitage
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- cookbook, first edition, african american,
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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