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Cross Creek Cookery
by MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing, of Rawlings' heartwarming cookbook. With Scibner's 'A,' octavo, original pictorial cal/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 2811000089
- ISBN 13
- 9782811000080
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing, of Rawlings' heartwarming cookbook. With Scibner's 'A,' octavo, original pictorial calico-textured cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with only a tiny imperfection on the upper front cover, one below the title, and chip on top of spine. Illustrations by Robert Camp. Readers of Rawlings' 1942 pastoral idyll Cross Creek took special notice of her ability to describe food, and responded to the book with hundreds of letters asking for recipes. Rawlings obliged in Cross Creek Cookery, interweaving her instructions for Florida Backwoods Biscuits and Aunt Luella's Boiled Salad Dressing with nostalgic vignettes and insightful reflections on the many meanings of meals. A wonderful copy of this classic! Used/Near Fine.
Synopsis
The Classic Book on Southern Cooking First published in 1942, Cross Creek Cookery was compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at the request of readers who wanted to recreate the luscious meals described in Cross Creek -- her famous memoir of life in a Florida hamlet. Lovers of old-fashioned, down-home cooking will treasure the recipes for Grits, Hush-Puppies, Florida Fried Fish, Orange Fluff, and Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie. For more adventuresome palates, there are such unusual dishes as Minorcan Gopher Stew, Coot Surprise, Alligator-Tail Steak, Mayhaw Jelly, and Chef Huston's Cream of Peanut Soup. Spiced with delightful anecdotes and lore, Cross Creek Cookery guides the reader through the rich culinary heritage of the deep tidal South with a loving regard for the rituals of cooking and eating. Anyone who longs for food -- and writing -- that warms the heart will find ample portions of both in this classic cookbook.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31514
- Title
- Cross Creek Cookery
- Author
- MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing, of Rawlings' heartwarming cookbook. With Scibner's 'A,' octavo, original pictorial cal
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 2811000089
- ISBN 13
- 9782811000080
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- SOUTHERN LITERATURE
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