Good Things To Eat As Suggested By Rufus: A Collection Of Practical Recipes For Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.

Published in 1911, this is the first cookbook by an african-american and is a collection of recipes suggested by Rufus Estes, who was born a slave in 1957 and after emancipation and growing into adulthood, spent much of his life as a chef for the Pullman Private Car Service and the Subsidiary Companies Of The United States. Includes soup, meat, fish, fowl, desserts and more.

You may learn more about this cookbook and other great cook books in Toni Tipton-Martin’s The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks