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Soul Food Cookery

August 1968

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

The Soul Food Cookery cookbook by Inez Y. Kaiser, Revised edition, August 1968. The book is paperback and bound with a white plastic binding comb on the left spine. The front cover is predominantly white, covered with a light blue floral pattern. In the top left corner is a white circle outlined with a light blue band and thin purple band. Inside the circle is the title of the book written in stylized, purple text that reads [SOUL / COOKERY / FOOD]. The word [COOKERY] is written in a smaller font. Purple grapes and leaves frame the encircled book title in the top left quadrant of the cover. The lower half of the front cover is decorated with purple illustrations of a tureen, a corked wine bottle, two covered bowls, and grapes and leaves. In the top right corner is the price of the publication [$3.95], printed in purple ink.

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Catalog reference: 2019.31.1

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