A domestic cookbook : containing a careful selection of useful receipts for the kitchen / Malinda Russell.
| Author/creator | Russell, Malinda author. |
| Other author | McLoone, Juli, writer of preface. |
| Other author | Longone, Janice Bluestein, writer of introduction. |
| Other author | Zafar, Roger, writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©1866 |
| Description | xxxvi, 81 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 Roger Zafar -- A domestic cookbook -- Receipts. |
| Abstract | "'A domestic cookbook' (1866) by Malinda Russell is the oldest known published cookbook written by an African American woman. 'A domestic cookbook' contains 260 recipes an dhousehold 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. This new edition includes a foreword by scholar Rafia Zafar as well as an introduction by the late food historian Janice Bluestein Longone that contextualize Ruzzell's cookbook. Using the only known copy of the original book housed in the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan Library's Special Collections Research Center, this new edition preserves an important part of Michigan and American history and makes it widely available to readers for the first time"--Page 4 of cover. |
| General note | Reprint. Originally published: Paw Paw, Michigan : Published published by Malinda Russell, 1866. With added preface, introduction to the 2007 facsimile edition, and foreword to the new edition. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | cookbooks. |
| Genre/form | Cookbooks. |
| Genre/form | Livres de cuisine. |
| ISBN | 9780472039647 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0472039644 (paper ; alkaline paper) |