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Celestine Eustis; Creole CookbookBiblio.com

One of the Earliest Creole Cookbooks Cooking in Old Creole Days 1903 First Edition

1903réf. 227771903. Eustis Celestine. Cooking in Old Creole Days 1903 presents one of the earliest widely circulated printed accounts of Louisiana Creole cuisine and preserves culinary traditions shaped by African American cooks French colonial influences Caribbean foodways and regional Southern ingredients. Written by New Orleans writer and philanthropist Celestine Eustis during a period when Creole culture was becoming a subject of national fascination the book documents dishes and techniques that developed within the kitchens of Creole households where Black cooks played central roles in shaping regional cuisine. Recipes for dishes such as crab gumbo crawfish bisque jambalaya à la Creole okra gumbo Hopping John praline cocoanut and molasses cake demonstrate the fusion of African diasporic ingredients French culinary methods and Gulf Coast agricultural products that defined the food culture of New Orleans at the turn of the twentieth century. Eustis Celestine. Cooking in Old Creole Days La Cuisine Créole à l'usage des petits ménages. New York: R. H. Russell 1903. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with eight full-page plates by Harper Pennington each with a printed tissue guard featuring the musical score and lyrics of a Creole song. Original publisher's pictorial cloth. The book presents recipes alongside cultural commentary celebrating the distinctive culinary traditions of Creole New Orleans. French titles appear alongside English recipe names emphasizing the bilingual cultural environment from which these dishes emerged. The introduction by physician and writer S. Weir Mitchell praises the culinary expertise of African American cooks in Southern households while also reflecting the racial paternalism characteristic of early twentieth century commentary on Black labor and domestic service. The volume is illustrated with eight full page plates by Harper Pennington. Each plate is protected by a printed tissue guard bearing the musical score and lyrics of a Creole song pairing culinary instruction with elements of regional musical culture and reinforcing the book's portrayal of Creole domestic life. At the time of its publication Creole cuisine had become a defining element of New Orleans cultural identity and an object of growing national interest among American readers seeking regional culinary traditions. Works such as Eustis's cookbook helped introduce Creole foodways to a broader audience while documenting dishes that had long circulated within local households and community networks. Clean interior with crisp illustrations and intact tissues; binding tight with minimal signs of use. Overall near fine condition. This book preserves evidence of the racial and social hierarchies that structured domestic labor in the American South where the knowledge and artistry of Black cooks shaped the cuisine even as their contributions were often filtered through the voices of white authors and publishers. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis1 200,00 $US≈ 1 070,00 €

Charles Colcock Jones Jr; Georgia;Gullah Creole DialectBiblio.com

African American Folklore and Gullah Language Preservation on the Georgia Coast Jones's Negro Myths 1888

1888réf. 177281888. Jones Charles C. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast 1888 presenting a late nineteenth-century compilation of African American folklore recorded in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia and South Carolina coastal region with direct relevance to the study of Black oral traditions linguistic history and post-emancipation cultural expression. The volume gathers fable-like narratives often centered on anthropomorphic animals that reflect storytelling traditions rooted in African diasporic heritage and adapted within enslaved and freed communities of the coastal South. Its use of Gullah a Creole language shaped by West African linguistic structures and English situates the work within ongoing efforts of the period to document vernacular speech and preserve forms of cultural expression that had developed under slavery and persisted into Reconstruction and beyond. Jones Charles C. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1888. First edition. The text is rendered in Gullah dialect reflecting the linguistic patterns of African American communities along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts including areas around Savannah and Charleston. Jones raised in a plantation environment and familiar with the regional speech patterns compiled these narratives as part of a broader nineteenth-century interest in folklore and dialect studies contributing to early written records of Gullah language and storytelling traditions. Single volume. Ex libris. Minor foxing to the front pastedown and bumped corners; overall very good condition. A late nineteenth-century printed record of African American folklore and language from the coastal South documenting narrative forms and speech patterns that remain central to the study of Gullah culture and linguistic history. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis585,00 $US≈ 521,62 €

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