When Lena Richard cooked her first chicken on television, she beat Julia Child to the screen by over a decade. At a time when most African American women cooks worked behind swinging kitchen doors, Ri...Show More
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epekilis recommended:Jun 26th, 2020
Brilliant black chef wrote pioneering cookbook on New Orleans Creole cuisine in 1939 and likely the first TV cooking show to headline an African American woman in 1949. She became a cooking celebrity with a best selling cookbook and recruited by the Rockefellers. And at the opposite end of the spe...Show More
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rmmiller364 recommended:Jun 29th, 2020
I’m so glad to learn about Lena Richard and her pioneering cookbook and cooking show!
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