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Savannah Cook Book, 1933, 1960, Unrevised First Edition, 1963

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Savannah Cook Book, 1933, 1960, Unrevised First Edition, 1963 Printing! Subtitle: A Collection of Old Fashioned Receipts from Colonial Kitchens, collected and edited by Harriet Ross Colquitt, unrevised 1960 edition with new copyright, also by Harriet Ross Colquitt. With a poetic introduction by Ogden Nash and with whimsical decorations by Florence Olmstead. Cardboard covered book with plastic comb binding has lots ofshelf wear. 186 pages. With the exception of a very few, light spots, pages are all clean and clear and uniformly tanned at the edges. No notations. No tears or bent corners. Cover has rounded corners, some light stains, and some very slight darkening at the edges. Not even worn around the holes were the binding goes.

Colonial Kitchens occupied the basement of the Colonial Dames House, the home of the Georgia Society of Colonial Dames of America, on Lafayette Square, in Savannah, Georgia. The Kitchens was open in 1928. The house was the former home of Juliette Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts of America. Colquitt collected these recipes–or receipts–were collected from the African American cooks working at the Kitchens. Colquitt using the word “collected” as if she were a trained student of American folklore, which I believe she was. The recipes are accompanied by charming stories of the cooks and the other workers at the Kitchens, and stories about the recipes, about which Colquitt says, come from “old manuscripts written in fine, lady-like hands–many of the including identical directions which have been passed about among friends.”

The one great thing about these recipes: You often add a glass of wine right before serving. You just can imagine the cook pouring two glasses! Also, the cartoon illustrations are wonderful. Very, very funny! (Once you get passed the fact that they are offensive, of course.) Colquitt was an excellent writer. She tosses in asides and historical details with merry abandon, like the Ritual of the Bird’s-Eye Pepper or the backgrounds of hoe cake and Johnny cake. You will love this cookbook.

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