cross creek cookery

Unusual regional recipes from backwoods Florida, personal writing and appealing illustrations make this a very desirable cookbook by the author of "The Yearling". Recipe examples include "Black Bird Pie", which the author admits is now illegal, "Creamed Poke-Weed on Toast" and "Cooter" (Soft-Shell Turtle Soup). Black and white illustrations.

OVERALL = B+ Very Good Condition. COVER: Very nice, lightly used. DUST JACKET: None. INTERIOR: Gift inscribed to Rita May from Rhonda. Author's obituary taped to inside front blank endpaper. pub date: 1942 publisher: Charles Scribner's and Sons format: Hardcover sku: BCB777358 $55.00 (Qty avail: 1)