Eliza’s Cook Book: Favorite Recipes Compiled by Negro Culinary Art Club of Los Angeles

“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