(African American) Watts, Edith [Ballard] & John. Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes. Russia From the award-winning author of

From the award-winning author of Milk Pigs & Violet Gold and 0451 Mornings are for Mont Hin Gar comes another sumptuous adventure

to indulge in his culinary artistry

Philadelphia: Published for the Author

with 38 wood engravings

Don't take anything that is put before you

(African American) Watts, Edith [Ballard] & John. Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes. Russia From the award-winning author ofJacket. First Edition. NY: Viking, 1954. According to Toni Tipton Martin in The Jemimah Code, " Jesse Willis Lewis cooked Creole dishes and Gulf Coast specialties that he had learned at his mother's knee in the Ballard home in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. This book is a compilation of more than 340 of his classic recipes what is mind blowing is that these authors observe and record the true finesse possessed by one of history's disregarded cooks,