[No place]: Standard Oil Company of Pennsylvania, (1930).
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Softcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 32pp. Illustrated with drawings and photos in color. Frontispiece image of two Black cooks: Aunt Julia and Aunt Leola comparing notes in the kitchen. Stapled decorated wrappers. The front cover bears the name of a sales agent: “Compliments of Your Esso Dealer and S.J. Long, Agent Standard Oil Co. of N.J. / Lexington, S.C.” A trifle rubbed, else very near fine. Esso promotional cookbook with advertisements for Esso car parts and other products, interspersed with recipes.
The recipes are Southern in flavor and their homemade excellence is supported by their attribution to a familiar icon of Southern cookery, the Black cook in traditional dress. Toni Tipton-Martin chose the images of Aunt Julia and Aunt Leola for one of the book jacket illustrations for her magnum opus, *The Jemima Code*. OCLC locates six copies, plus there is a copy in the Lupton Cookbook Collection. *Tipton-Martin* p.48. Attractive and very scarce.
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