Cross Creek Cookery
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Illustrated by Robert Camp. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Original pictorial calico-textured cloth boards; decorated endpages. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Dust Jacket with price of $2.50 is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has evenly age toned with wear along the spine edges. 8vo; 230 pages with index and illustrations. First Edition, First Printing. with "A".
REF: Bigelow. 46; Edwards, 166
Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Item #16598
The Classic Book on Southern Cooking, 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.
A great combination of recipes and stories about them. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings complied it shortly after writing a novel of the same name. Like many Southern cookbooks, most of the recipes in Cross Creek Cookery actually belong to Idella Parker, who was Rawlings maid for ten years.
After hundreds of letters asking for recipes after readers loved her Cross Creek. Rawlings obliged, 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.
Price: $85.00
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