Good Things to Eat, As Suggested by Rufus: A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.

Rare cookbook from 1911 --- the first written by a Black chef --- republished with 52 "new" photographs illustrations and advertisements from the 1800s and early 1900s. Includes the authors comments on what it was like to be a little boy during the Civil War. Includes 21 chapters and 591 recipes . . . for haute cuisine as well as family-style meals some southern and Creole dishes. Roasted canvas-back duck Virginia stew blackberry vinegar cakes pies cookies omelettes.