Larissa's breadbook : baking bread & telling tales with women of the American South / Lorraine Johnson-Coleman ; illustrated by Katherine Sandoz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson-Coleman, Lorraine, 1962-

Contributor:

Sandoz, Katherine, illustrator.

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

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

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Southern States--Fiction.

Women.

Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.

Reminiscing in old age.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Women cooks--Fiction.

Women cooks.

Older women--Fiction.

Older women.

Baking--Fiction.

Baking.

Bread.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[8], 245, [3] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Rutledge Hill Press a Thomas Nelson Company, 2001.

Summary:

10 elderly Southern women from diverse backgrounds bake bread for a school fundraiser.

Contents:

First, a Note from Larissa's Mama

Larissa's Story

Another Note from Larissa's Mama

Miss Bessie. From the very beginning; Miss Bessie at her soulful best

Miss Martha. And, of course, her mama's story, too; Miss Martha's favorite recipes

Lady Patricia. A life of southern splendor; Lady Patricia's teatime favorites

Sister Friday. Tellin' de truth and shamin' de devil; Good Gullah cooking

Cha-Wa-Ke (Sarah Emily Tell). Ani-Yun-Wiya (The principle people); Bread! Bread! Bread!

Annie Lee Watkins. Just plain mountain folk; Mountain-high goodies

Mrs. Rachel Cohen. Laughing sometimes to keep from crying; Sacred blessings from Rachel Cohen's kitchen

Signora Josephine Morelli. Memories, Memories, Memories; A glimpse into the family bread book

Señora Chepita Cotera. Las Tejanas; Señora Chepita's Mexican delights

Ma Chère Elise. C'est la vie; Chère soeur.

Notes:

"Book design by Design Press, a division of the Savannah College of Art and Design."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

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.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

1558538453 :

9781558538450

OCLC:

45829149

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