The Savannah Cook Book
- Hardcover
- New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. White illustrated stiff cardboard, orange plastic spiral binding. Very good. 186 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Introduction by Ogden Nash and Decorations by Florence Olmstead. Toni Tipton-Martin scrutinized this book in her publication The Jemima CODE - Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks noting the author "made her confused prejudices known through plantation sketches laced with bitter complaints about the near impossibility of procuring recipes for her (cookbok) - 'Getting directions from colored cooks is rather like trying to write down the music to spirituals which they sing...'".
Recipes from Mrs. Haversham's Cooking School - Colonial Kitchens, located (at the time) in the basement of the house belonging to the Georgia Society of Colonial Dames, also the former home of Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America. Southern specialties including soups, game, possum, turtle, desserts, preserves, and pickles. Interior lightly foxed, covers lightly soiled. [TIPTON-MARTIN 40] [BROWN 519].
Recipes from Mrs. Haversham's Cooking School - Colonial Kitchens, located (at the time) in the basement of the house belonging to the Georgia Society of Colonial Dames, also the former home of Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America. Southern specialties including soups, game, possum, turtle, desserts, preserves, and pickles. Interior lightly foxed, covers lightly soiled. [TIPTON-MARTIN 40] [BROWN 519].