The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks / Toni Tipton-Martin ; forewords by John Egerton and Barbara Haber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tipton-Martin, Toni, author.

Contributor:

Starr, Lindsay, designer.

Egerton, John, writer of foreword.

Haber, Barbara, writer of foreword.

University of Texas Press, publisher.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cookbooks--United States--History.

Cookbooks.

African American cooks--Biography.

African American cooks.

Cooks--United States--Biography.

Cooks.

History.

African Americans.

Food.

African American cooking.

United States.

African American cooking--History.

African Americans--Food--History.

African American cooks--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 246 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2015].

Contents:

Foreword. A gallery of great cooks / John Egerton

Foreword. Why cookbooks matter / Barbara Haber

Introduction

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.

Notes:

"First edition, 2015."

"Design by Lindsay Starr."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Winner, 2016

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has color illustration of Aunt Jemima and her various images laid in.

ISBN:

9780292745483

0292745486

OCLC:

890377551