![]() "The Jemima Code" includes books by some food figures well known today, people like Edna Lewis, Leah Chase, Jessica B. This lavishly illustrated book moves from "The House Servant's Directory," an 1827 guide to household management by Robert Roberts, to 1990's "Jerk: Barbecue From Jamaica" by Helen Willinsky. Now, after years of research and amassing an impressive collection of more than 300 cookbooks, she shares both that memory and the answer in a handsome 264-page work titled "The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks" (University of Texas Press, $45). ![]() Toni Tipton-Martin was a food writer at the Los Angeles Times when she gazed at the cookbooks in the newspaper's test kitchen and wondered: "Where are all the black cooks?" She decided to find out. ![]() Food writer Toni Tipton-Martin has brought together 200 years of African-American culinary history in "The Jemima Code." ![]()
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