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Down home healthy : family recipes of Black American chefs Leah Chase and Johnny Rivers.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection Banks Cookbooks 97
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Chase, Leah.
- Rivers, Johnny, 1948- author.
- Series:
- NIH publication ; no. 94-3408.
- NIH publication ; no. 94-3408
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American cooking.
- Low-fat diet--Recipes.
- Low-fat diet.
- Food.
- Black or African American.
- Medical Subjects:
- Food.
- Black or African American.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- Recipes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 44 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Family recipes of Black American chefs
- Place of Publication:
- [Bethesda, Md.?] : National Cancer Institute, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [1993]
- Contents:
- Menu. 20-minute chicken creole; Garlic mashed potatoes; Green salad with lemon wedges; Old fashioned bread pudding; Apple-raisin sauce
- Menu. Catfish stew; Spinach salad with turkey; Bacon bits/Lowfat salad dressing; Summer crisp
- Menu. New Orleans red beans; Hot fluffy brown rice; Mixed greens; Sliced tomatoes and basil; Whole grain bread or buns; Homemade applesauce made with unpeeled apples
- Menu. Baked pork chops; Sweet potato custard; Steamed broccoli with lemon wedge; Cucumber with mint and yogurt; Winter crisp
- Menu. Black skillet beef with green and red potatoes; Crispy whole wheat rolls; Fresh bananas and grapes; Fig bar cookies
- Menu. Spaghetti with turkey meat sauce; Spinach salad with light garlic dressing; Chilln' out pasta salad; Garden potato salad; Fresh strawberries; Oatmeal cookies.
- Notes:
- "February 1993"--Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 44).
- "The text for this publication was prepared by Ruth Fremes under a contract from the National Cancer Institute. Book design and Art Direction by Miles Fridberg Molinaroli, Inc., Washington, DC. Photographs by Bill Branson (portraits), Renèe Comet (food) and Ira Wexler (farm locations)."
- Spiral bound.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collecion copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Chase, Leah. Down home healthy.
- ISBN:
- 0160451663
- 9780160451669
- OCLC:
- 30795103
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