(Southern - Tennessee) Anne Foster Caldwell. Anne Foster Caldwell's Book of Southern and Creole Home Cooking. SIGNED!

Warmly inscribed & signed by Caldwell to her friend Stacy Moody on the front free endpaper. Gilt-lettered & dec. white cloth. First Edition. Nashville: Benson Printing, 1929.

A noted hostess and food specialist, Anne Caldwell was a pillar of Nashville's Centennial Club. They hosted luncheons in the old Southern style, and she was especially beloved for her recipes for divinity candy, Lady Washington Cake, and beaten biscuits (the dough "pounded with a club of hickory"). Recipes include fried salt port with cream gravy, Southern style chicken dressing, Carolina chicken gumbo, yellow meal Johnny cake, etc. (Fewer Southern and Creole recipes than one might expect from the title). Staining to covers, inner joints neatly repaired, else good. 

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