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The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks
- Title
- The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks / Toni Tipton-Martin ; forewords by John Egerton and Barbara Haber.
- Author
- Tipton-Martin, Toni
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [2015].
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- Description
- xv, 246 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- Women of African descent have contributed to America's food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by the demeaning stereotype of an illiterate "Aunt Jemima" who cooked mostly by natural instinct. Tipton-Martin looks at black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827 house servant's manual, the first book published by an African American in the trade, to modern classics. These cookbooks offer firsthand evidence that African Americans cooked creative masterpieces from meager provisions, educated young chefs, operated food businesses, and nourished the African American community through the long struggle for human rights.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc F 15-369
- ISBN
- 9780292745483 (hardcover)
- 0292745486 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2014033779
- OCLC
- 890377551
- Author
- Tipton-Martin, Toni, author.
- Title
- The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks / Toni Tipton-Martin ; forewords by John Egerton and Barbara Haber.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [2015].
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
- Sudoc No.
- Z UA380.8 T499je txdocs
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 15-369