![]() ![]() ![]() The need for cooking aptitude predated the existence of legal literacy for enslaved kitchen workers. Though it’s likely that black authors have published a few more cookbooks than those that have been found and preserved since 1866, many have been lost due to the vagaries of regional printing and their absence from public records. ![]() contains just over 300 titles it belongs to journalist Toni Tipton-Martin, whose new book The Jemima Code is a historical survey of black cookbooks and their role in black cultural preservation. Another one of the largest black cookbook collections in the U.S. The David Walker Lupton African American Cookbook Collection, on the other hand, is housed at the University of Alabama and contains roughly 500 publications-it’s one of the largest collections of known African American cookbooks in the country. For context, a 2012 Cooking Light list of top cookbooks noted that more than 50,000 cookbooks had been published in the 25 years since Cooking Light had published its inaugural issue. Since then, cookbooks by black authors have steadily trickled to market in far fewer numbers than titles by white authors. ![]()
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