The Blue Grass Cook Book

In 1904 Kentucky socialite Minnie C. Fox published <strong>The Blue Grass Cook Book</strong>with over three hundred recipes to celebrate the cuisine of the Blue... » 

In 1904 Kentucky socialite Minnie C. Fox published The Blue Grass Cook Bookwith over three hundred recipes to celebrate the cuisine of the BluegrassState. In the book Fox gives the first known credit for southern hospitalityto African American cooks. In Foxs time the culinary history of black womenin the South was usually characterized by demoralizing portraits of servantstoiling in big house kitchens. In contrast The Blue Grass Cook Book withits photographs of African American cooks at work and a passionate introductionby Foxs brother respected Kentucky novelist John Fox Jr. offers insight intothe complex bond between welltodo mistresses and their cooks at the turn ofthe century. A new introduction by Toni TiptonMartin adds historical contextto this neglected classic and offers a nuanced portrait of a unique and nowvanished culinary culture. She lives in Austin TX. «