(African American) Watts, Edith [Ballard] & John. Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes. Russia Chipping to spine wrappers

Chipping to spine wrappers

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Philadelphia: Published for the Author

(African American) Watts, Edith [Ballard] & John. Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes. Russia Chipping to spine wrappersJacket. First Edition. NY: Viking, 1954. According to Toni Tipton Martin in The Jemimah Code, " Jesse Willis Lewis cooked Creole dishes and Gulf Coast specialties that he had learned at his mother's knee in the Ballard home in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. This book is a compilation of more than 340 of his classic recipes what is mind blowing is that these authors observe and record the true finesse possessed by one of history's disregarded cooks,