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Our family table : recipes & food memories from African-American life models / [compiled] by Thelma Williams ; foreword by Camille O. Cosby, Ed.D. ; Maria Elena Cellino, Editor ; Al Jackson, Artist and Illustrator.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection Banks Cookbooks 24
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LIBRA - Blank Collection TX715 .O916 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- African Americans.
- Celebrities--United States--Anecdotes.
- Celebrities.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 94 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color portraits. ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Memphis, Tennesee] : Tradery House, [1993].
- Contents:
- Champion spoonbred / Arthur Ashe
- Mango crab cakes / Roslyn Bell
- Parisian couscous delight / Ed Bradley
- Chairman of the board pasta / John Bryant
- Whole wheat treasures / Nathaniel Bustion, Jr.
- Red River chili / Benjamin Carson, Sr.
- Friendship banana bread / Sr. Mary Alice Chineworth
- Island rice and peas / Kenneth b. Clark
- Mrs. Clark's teacakes / Norwood J. Clark, Jr.
- Heavenly buttermilk biscuits / Johnnetta B. Cole
- Bread pudding surprise / Camille Olivia Cosby
- Hurry! A shrimp curry / Dorothy Cropper
- Zesty egg white omelet with herbs / David Dinkins
- Grandmother's Ambrosia / Charlayne Hunter- Gault
- Premiere Sweet Potato Pie / Judith Jamison
- Cracked wheat launcher sandwich / Mae C. Jemison
- Medley of greens / Quincy Jones
- Honey peach cobbler / Barbara Jordan
- Scholarly broccoli quiche / Jawanza Kunjufu
- High power salad / Iris Marie Mack
- Enchanted friend corn / Leatrice McKissack
- Tangy chicken breast / Evelyn K. Moore
- Savory boiled ribs and cabbage / Alvin K. Poussaint
- A stupendous stew for you / Julius S. Scott, Jr.
- Picture perfect meat loaf / Calvin J. Stewart, Jr.
- The vegetarian pizza / Debi Thomas
- The glorious bird / Robert Townsend
- Midsummer Night's pickled beets / Rita Dolores Walters.
- Notes:
- "The quilt, reproduced on the cover, was made by Willia Ette Graham, a third generation quilter."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Blank Collection copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 1879958147 :
- 9781879958142
- 1879958163
- 9781879958166
- OCLC:
- 26722683
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