Food for to-day and tomorrow : new & improved Basutoland cookery book, 1951

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There are over 200 African American cookbooks in the collection dating from the early 19th century to the present. The earliest is a first edition of Robert Roberts, 'The House Servant's Directory'...

There are over 200 African American cookbooks in the collection dating from the early 19th century to the present. The earliest is a first edition of Robert Roberts, 'The House Servant's Directory' (1827), the first cookbook written by a black American and first book on any subject written by a black American to have been printed by a commercial publisher. Additionally there are charity cookbooks, black dialect items, and celebrity cookbooks. The collection is complemented by strong holdings in Caribbean cookery and African cookery.

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