1948 A Date with a Dish

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.