200 years of Charleston cooking
By: recipes gathered by Blanche S. Rhett; edited by Lettie Gay; introduction and explanatory matter by Helen Woodward.
Contributors: Gay, Lettie, 1901- ed.
Publisher: J. Cape & H. Smith
Published: 1930
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Cookery, American -- Southern style; Cookery -- South Carolina -- Charleston
Other titles: Charleston cooking.
Description: Traditional South Carolina recipes with anecdotes of Charleston's social life and conditions. Mentions the St. Cecelia Society, the coastal islands, the death of Aaron Burr's daughter, Ralph Bennett (the honey man), William Deas (the Rhett's butler), Dr. E.C. Adams, Mme. de Genlis, Leize Dawson owner of Villa Margherita, and includes several references African American street vendors and their wares and songs.
Notes: "The original recipes ... tested and standardized in the testing kitchen of the New York herald-tribune institute."-p. xv.