The EBONY Cookbook:

Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1962. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Green illustrated cloth covered boards. Very good , in good dust wrapper. 390 pages. 21 x 14 cm. "Containing more than one thousand recipes, menus, and cooking hints collected from and by Negro chefs, caterers, celebrities, country folks, housewives, and gourmet cooks from all over America over a period of twenty years, this well-organized treasury built a strong case for the versatility, ingenuity, and adeptness of African American cooks, dispelling the myth of black food as "peasant food" for white readers and attracting blacks to the food industry by celebrating the economic achievements of ancestral professionals and entrepreneurs" - (Toni Tipton Martin, The Jemima Code - Two Centuries of American American Cookbooks pg. 62) Previous owner's inscription on front free end paper. Interior clean and crisp. Dust wrapper rubbed and chipped at edges. Covered in protective mylar.