Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus ...

published one of the oldest known cookbooks by an African American author, "What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking." Fisher recounts a coconut pie in the collection that required the ...

She co-authored cookbooks with chefs Eric Ripert ... and essays documenting the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and Midwest. She is also the director ...