The oldest published cookbook by a Black American woman — that we know of is out in a brand new edition this February. Malinda Russell wrote A Domestic Cookbook: Containing a Careful Selection ...

Malinda Russell's cookbook was discovered at the bottom of a box of books in the early 2000s by culinary historian Janice Bluestein Longone, who donated it as part of an extensive archive of ...

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.