To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Book 8)

by Angela Jill Cooley

Although only an elite few would have had enslaved help in the kitchen, many turn-of-the-century white, middle-class women interpreted antebellum kitchens as “mammy’s” space—an area of black authority.