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Cooking, American -- Southern style

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85031777

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Anonymous Travel Diary from Boston to New Orleans

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4281
Abstract

Travel diary recording events of an unnamed Northern man's 1842-1843 journey from Boston to New Orleans, with descriptions of many aspects of Southern life and culture, including slavery, society, and food.

Dates: 1842 - 1843

Charity Sophia Rutland Brett commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0206
Abstract

Mid-nineteenth-century combination cookbook and scrapbook that includes a "Cure for Cancer," a "New broth for the sick," and a "remedy for cholera," among others.

Dates: 1851-1856

Truman Capote papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0273
Abstract

Marie Rudisill cookbook galleys, recipes with Capote comments, John Morris account book, James Johnson account book and the manuscript for the Yellow Drum, a play adapted from a Capote novel.

Dates: 1839-1989

Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract

Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.

Dates: Circa 1848-1865

Sallie Hill paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0032
Abstract

A typescript copy of an address delivered by Sallie Hill at the April 20, 1960, meeting of the Alabama Historical Association. The address, "Alabama Food Ways," describes traditional southern food and food history.

Dates: 1960

Sarah Shorter Hunter commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0019
Abstract

Commonplace book of Eufaula, Alabama, resident containing handwritten recipes, poems, quotations, and notes. In addition, the book includes a small number of newspaper clippings.

Dates: approximately 1835-1894