(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (New Orleans) The Original Picayune Creole Cook Book

Color frontis. of a Balck cook sitting in front of a fireplace. Pictorial brick cloth. New Orleans: Times-Picayune, 1947.

Wonderful Southern and Creole recipes for squirrel gumbo (!), shrimp gumbo file, chicken with truffles, pickled tunny, etc. Also with definitions of vegetables, condiments, etc. and their historical context to the South: "Dandelions: The Creoles long ago discovered the possibilities of the dandelion under cultivation....", etc. 

Fading to spine, mild rubbing to spine ends and extremities, else very good.

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