A domestic cook book : containing a careful selection of useful receipts for the kitchen / Malinda Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Malinda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, Malinda.

Longone, Janice Bluestein.

Cooking, American--Southern style.

Cooking, American.

African Americans--Michigan.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 pages)

Edition:

New Edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025.

Summary:

A Domestic Cook Book (1866) by Malinda Russell is the oldest known published cookbook written by an African American woman. This new edition includes a foreword by scholar Rafia Zafar as well as an introduction by food historian Janice Bluestein Longone that contextualize Russell's cookbook. Born in Tennessee and descended from Virginia freemen, Russell decided to move to Liberia at the age of 19. When her money for the trip was stolen, she ended up stranded in Lynchburg, Virginia, and began working as a cook and companion, traveling with ladies as a nurse. After living there for only four years, her husband died and she moved with her son to Tennessee where she kept a boarding house and then went on to run a pastry shop. After a second dramatic robbery in 1864, Malinda moved to Paw Paw, Michigan, because she had heard it was the "garden of the west" and published a cookbook "with the intention of benefiting the public" as well as supporting herself. A Domestic Cook Book contains 260 recipes and household tips that draw from Malinda Russell's twenty years of experience cooking in Southern kitchens, her boarding house, and her pastry shop, and showcase her skills as a pastry chef. Using the only known copy of the original book housed in the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan's Clements Library, this new edition preserves an important part of Michigan and American history and makes it widely available to readers for the first time. Malinda Russell was born and raised in eastern Tennessee. In 1864, Russell moved to Michigan, where she settled in the Paw Paw area and published this volume in 1866.

Contents:

"Janice Bluestein Longone : a legacy to savor" / by Juli McLoone

"Introduction to the 2007 facsimile edition : Malinda Russell : an indomitable woman

an American story" / by Janice Bluestein Longone

"Foreword to the new edition" / by Rafia Zafar

A domestic cook book.

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ISBN:

9780472904358

0472904353

OCLC:

1496393243

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access