1948 A Date with a Dish
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Description
Early Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper
The second printing, published the same year as the first; this work is scarcely found prior to the third printing of 1970.
With recipes for soups, relishes, sauves, meats, beverages, fowl, fish, all-in-one dishes, eggs, macaroni and noodles, salads and dressings, breads, sandwiches, waffles and fritters, pies, cakes, and desserts.
Written by Freda De Knight, the first food editor of Ebony magazine. This work, considered the first important cookbook by an African-American for an African-American audience, was a best-seller, and pioneering for the working class. Through this work, De Knight reminds readers of the roots of Southern cookery and its multinational heritage
Complete with a smart unclipped dust wrapper.
Signed by the author to the front endpaper.
An excellent and scarce signed example of this important African-American cookery book.
Condition
In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart; a little worn to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is slightly chipped to the head and tail of the spine, as well as to the extremities and edges on occasion; spine is a little sunned. Signed by the author to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good
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