There are Lowcountry recipes for pickled shrimp ... green beans, peas and beef. The cookbook includes a photo of 5-year-old Stephen's drawn recipe. “It is the first recipe I ever learned.

a Tennessean who in 1866 became the first known Black American to publish a cookbook. Those influences resurface in chapters divided by region: Backcountry, Lowcountry, Midlands, Lowlands ...