Tillery, Carolyn Quick

Traces the history of Virginia's Hampton Institute, one of the first schools established to educate newly freed slaves in the wake of the Civil War, and features recipes for regional foods reminiscent of those prepared at the school. Includes photographs and quotations.

Contains over two hundred traditional recipes, photographs, vignettes, and poetry from the Tuskegee Institute, a center of African-American progress and education founded by former slave Booker T. Washington in 1881.