Cross Creek Cookery

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing, of Rawlings' heartwarming cookbook. With Scibner's 'A,' octavo, original pictorial calico-textured cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with only a tiny imperfection on the upper front cover, one below the title, and chip on top of spine. Illustrations by Robert Camp. Readers of Rawlings' 1942 pastoral idyll Cross Creek took special notice of her ability to describe food, and responded to the book with hundreds of letters asking for recipes. Rawlings obliged in Cross Creek Cookery, interweaving her instructions for Florida Backwoods Biscuits and Aunt Luella's Boiled Salad Dressing with nostalgic vignettes and insightful reflections on the many meanings of meals. A wonderful copy of this classic!