Eliza’s Cook Book: Favorite Recipes Compiled by Negro Culinary Art Club of Los Angeles
by Beatrice Hightower Cates
Publication Date: Jan 01, 1936
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Paperback, 110 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Imprint: Wetzel Publishing
Publisher: Wetzel Publishing
Parent Company: Wetzel Publishing Company
“This is a sophisticated gem — a miraculous and lovely example of African American flair in the ever-present asymmetry of the Jemima cliche. During the years when Hollywood confined black actresses to roles spoken in broken black dialect or to portraying sassy maids, these upscale recipes of the black middle class showed that there was another side to black female cooks: a sophisticated side.”—Toni Tipton-Martin
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