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From gingerbread and cookies to classic puddings and biscuits, this chef's 1866 cookbook paved the way for Southern cooking today.
A historic cookbook is getting a refresh: Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cookbook: A Careful Selection of Useful Receipts For the Kitchen, is the oldest known cookbook by a Black American woman.
In it, you'll find French pastry techniques, technical preservation methods for clarifying sugar, and early recipes that demonstrate the 19th century Southern "art of Cooking" that Russell was known for throughout Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky, where she cooked.
It was republished in February by the University of Michigan Press for the first time in 160 years.
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A historic cookbook is getting a refresh: Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cookbook: A Careful Selection of Useful Receipts For the Kitchen, is the oldest known cookbook by a Black American woman.
In it, you'll find French pastry techniques, technical preservation methods for clarifying sugar, and early recipes that demonstrate the 19th century Southern "art of Cooking" that Russell was known for throughout Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky, where she cooked.
It was republished in February by the University of Michigan Press for the first time in 160 years.
Malinda Russell's Southern Roots
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This Cookbook Made History—Now It's Been Republished For The First Time In 160 Years
Learn about the oldest known cookbook by a Black American woman, and why it's being republished for the first time in 160 years.
