Description: 1st Printing / 1st Edition / 1969Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook7x4”, condition as shown, no foul odors. "From Chicken n' Ribs to Buttermilk Biscuits and Black-eyed Peas ~ A mouth-watering treasury of Afro-American Recipes From Manhattan's most spirited chef." From food52.com Princess Pamela didn’t let just anyone into her restaurant. She ran her Little Kitchen out of her railroad apartment in an Alphabet City walk-up, one floor above a Chinese takeout joint. This was the Manhattan of 1965. Would-be patrons would buzz apartment 2A and Princess Pamela, who claimed her real name was Pamela Strobel, would creak the door open, revealing little more than her eyes. If she knew you, though, chances were you’d be able to shout her name from the ground outside and she’d just throw a key down. And getting in was like scoring drugs. The joint was far from spacious; it was no bigger than 120 square feet, and capacity didn’t exceed 15. The joint was far from spacious; it was no bigger than 120 square feet, and capacity didn’t exceed 15. But she treated it like her hamlet. Inside were corrugated ceilings, black fridges, checked shamrock green tablecloths, Jewish memorial candles, and derelict chairs donated by do-gooders she knew in the neighborhood. Over time, the restaurant’s cerulean walls would be decorated with the portraits of those who’d passed through, from Gloria Steinem to the Rothschilds, Ringo Starr to Diana Ross. Whatever food the restaurant did serve didn’t suggest the encyclopedic breadth of her 1969 cookbook. Princess Pamela’s Soul Food Cookbook, originally published by Signet Books before falling out of print for 45 years, was a tome of 147 recipes sourced from the life she’d led for four decades. She was a mettled, plucky girl from the South Carolina town of Spartanburg who was orphaned at 10, left home on her own when she was 13, and worked in restaurants until she reached New York in her early 20s, when she decided to start a business of her own.
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Book Title: Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: New American Library
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1969
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Era: 1960s
Item Height: 7 in
Author: Princess Pamela
Genre: Cookbooks
Topic: Food
Item Width: 4 in
Number of Pages: 248
