What Mrs Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking Soups Pickles Preserves Etc

"A former slave, Mrs Fisher came from Mobile, Alabama and began cooking for San Francisco society in the late 1870's"--Back cover.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This special edition of "What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking" was written by Mrs. Abby Fisher, and first published in 1881. Mrs. Fisher was "Awarded Two Medals at the San Francisco Mechanics Institute Fair, 1880, for the best pickles and the best assortment of jams and jellies," and went on to write this cook book of her down-home comfort food. Some of the sections featured include Breakfast Breads, Roast Meats, Croquettes, Cakes, Pickles, Sauces, Pies, Salads, Soups, Chowders, and more. IMPORTANT NOTE - Please read BEFORE buying! THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT. IT IS NOT AN ORIGINAL COPY. This book is a reprint edition and is a perfect facsimile of the original book. It is not set in a modern typeface and has not been digitally rendered. As a result, some characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections, blurring, or minor shadows in the page background. This book appears exactly as it did when it was first printed.

This volume features more than 300 authentic recipes straight from the kitchens of Creole Louisiana.

Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture as well as the contributions of Black cooks and chefs to what has been considered the mainstream. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and continuing nearly to the present day, African Americans have often been stereotyped as illiterate kitchen geniuses. Rafia Zafar addresses this error, highlighting the long history of accomplished African Americans within our culinary traditions, as well as the literary and entrepreneurial strategies for civil rights and respectability woven into the written records of dining, cooking, and serving. Whether revealed in cookbooks or fiction, memoirs or hotel-keeping manuals, agricultural extension bulletins or library collections, foodways knowledge sustained Black strategies for self-reliance and dignity, the preservation of historical memory, and civil rights and social mobility. If, to follow Mary Douglas’s dictum, food is a field of action—that is, a venue for social intimacy, exchange, or aggression—African American writing about foodways constitutes an underappreciated critique of the racialized social and intellectual spaces of the United States.

This "incomparable guide to Southern cuisine", according to Time magazine, includes a preliminary check list of the cookbooks of South Carolina which were published before 1935. A facsimile of the 1847 edition.