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The Ebony Cookbook : a date with a dish / by Freda De Knight; with a foreword by Gertrude Blair.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection Banks Cookbooks 471
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Knight, Freda, 1910-1963.
- Series:
- Pocket book
- A Pyramid book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American.
- African American cooking.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 397, [3] pages ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Date with a dish
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pyramid Books, [1970]
- Contents:
- There's magic in a cookbook / by Gertrude Blair
- A guide for the housewife
- Appetizers
- Cheese
- Soups
- Relishes
- Sauces for meats, fish and vegetables
- Beverages
- Meats
- Fowl
- Stuffings
- Fish
- All-in-one dishes
- Eggs
- Vegetables on parade
- Macaroni, spaghetti and noodles
- Salads and salad dressings
- Breads
- Sandwiches
- Waffles, fritters and pancakes
- Pies
- Cakes, cookies and candies
- Desserts
- Creole dishes
- Menus.
- Notes:
- "Johnson Publishing Company edition published 1962. Second printing, 1969. Pyramid edition published July 1970."
- "There has long been a need for a non-regional cookbook that would contain recipes, menus and cooking hints from Negroes all over America. I have attempted to present in these pages, with my own contributions, as complete a collection as can be found anywhere in the land."--Introduction.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has front and back covers disbound.
- ISBN:
- 515226895
- OCLC:
- 1112465114
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