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Book/Printed Material What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc.

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Title

  • What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc.

Names

  • Fisher, Abby.
  • Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • San Francisco : Women's Co-operative Printing Office, 1881.

Headings

  • -  Cooking, American--Southern style
  • -  African American women authors

Genre

  • Cookbooks

Notes

  • -  Believed to be the second published cookbook by an African American woman. The first is, A domestic cook book: containing a careful selection of useful receipts for the kitchen, by Malinda Russell, 1866. See Smithsonian Magazine, October 11, 2017.
  • -  "Awarded two medals at the San Francisco Mechanics' Institute Fair, 1880, for best pickles and sauces and best assortment of jellies and preserves. Diploma awarded at Sacrameto State Fair, 1879."
  • -  LC copy 1 accompanied by a copy of a Washington Post (11-07-95) article about the book.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-03-08 no edits (3 cards)

Medium

  • 72 p. ; 20 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX715 .F533

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 08023680

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Fisher, Abby, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc. San Francisco: Women's Co-operative Printing Office, 1881. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/08023680/.

APA citation style:

Fisher, A. & Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. (1881) What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc. San Francisco: Women's Co-operative Printing Office. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/08023680/.

MLA citation style:

Fisher, Abby, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc. San Francisco: Women's Co-operative Printing Office, 1881. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/08023680/>.