(African-American) McRee, Patsie. The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch. Oregon the passion that the authors

the passion that the authors put into their search for that "something extra" - whether it's an unusual decoration or a filling - shines through every page

and one of the most popular American cookbooks of the 19th century

Naz's family finds comfort and familiarity in pots of hearty aash

with drawings and from photographs

(African-American) McRee, Patsie. The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch. Oregon the passion that the authorsIllus, with drawings of African Americans working in the South, by K. Burke. Dec. brownn cloth lettered in yellow. First Edition. Atlanta: Cullom & Ghertner, 1948. Signed by author Patsie McRee on the front free endpaper. The restaurant was famous for its racist portrayals of Black people (especially their own servers and performers); more can be learned about it here. Poems in negro dialect by the daughter of a former landowner for whom numerous