Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat and other aspects of the

and other aspects of the craft

Long Island

and Baudelaire's personal letters to his mother and female acquaintances

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Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat and other aspects of theBorn a slave in 1857, Rufus Estes worked his way up from a Pullman Private Car attendant to a job preparing meals for the top brass at one of the country's largest steel corporations. This cookbook, the first to be written and published by a black chef, includes a number of dishes from Estes vast culinary collection. Commenting briefly on his Southern childhood and early years as a railway attendant, Estes goes on to offer simple instructions for