(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Southern) Ernest M. Mickler. Sinkin Spells, Hot Flashes, Fits and Cravins

Illus. with color photographs. Spiral-bound pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, [1988].

"In the 1980s, some folks wrote off Ernie Mickler, author of “White Trash Cooking,” as a yayhoo curiosity. Others thought him one of the most brilliant Southern folklorists and photographers of the 20th century. But perhaps most importantly, Mickler left behind a testament to the fact that all Southerners — even those at the margins — have a right to claim their roots." - Michael Adno, in The Bitter Southerner.

Ernest Mickler was from Jacksonville, Florida, and as a gay man living in the South, he had a great appreciation for outsiders. His profiles of them and their foodways has gained much respect among food anthropologists.

A fine copy of the first edition of what would late become "White Trash Cooking II".