African American cooks were not strangers in the kitchens of the Old South, but white southerners often failed to acknowledge their contributions. One of the first exceptions was Kentucky socialite Minnie C. Fox, who recognized the significant influence and importance of the African American cooks and wrote The Blue Grass Cook Book, first published in 1904.
From biscuits and hams to ice creams and puddings, this cookbook is a collection of over three hundred recipes from family and friends, including black cooks, near Minnie Fox's Bourbon County, Kentucky, family estate and...
African American cooks were not strangers in the kitchens of the Old South, but white southerners often failed to acknowledge their contributions. ...
John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New York. A Mountain Europa was his first novel serialized in Century Magazine. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, published in 1903, made the New York Times top ten list of best selling books. Many of Fox's novels are historical romances set in the area of his childhood. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come tells the story of the life of Kentucky mountaineers. where Chad, an orphan boy, secures an education, fights for the North in the Civil War,...
John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New Yo...
John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New York. A Mountain Europa was his first novel serialized in Century Magazine. Many of his works are in a naturalist style while others are dramas or historical romances. A Cumberland Vendetta is set in the rural mountain area of Kentucky. This action story grasps the strong character the mountain people. The story begins "The cave had been their hiding-place as children; it was a secret refuge now against hunger or darkness when they were hunting in...
John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New Yo...
John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New York. A Mountain Europa was his first novel serialized in Century Magazine. The lives of the mountain people are beautifully told intertwined with beautiful descriptive passages about this rural untamed mountainous region. The story begins on a road with a young girl riding a bull and a man and a dog. Fox weaves his tales with the life experiences he had living in the Kentucky region.
John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New Yo...
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This is a collection of true stories about life in central Kentucky (the Bluegrass area) and the mountains of eastern Kentucky and Virginia. Mr. Fox was a prolific writer in the late 1800's and early 1900s. He chronicles his experiences fox hunting, log rafting, fishing, raccoon hunting as well as being a member of a civilian police guard in eastern Kentucky that helped stem the tide of feuding and violence that threatened the local populace. The stories are a wonderful snapshot of an era and time long gone. Short stories include: The Southern Mountaineer The Kentucky Mountaineer Down the...
This is a collection of true stories about life in central Kentucky (the Bluegrass area) and the mountains of eastern Kentucky and Virginia. Mr. Fox w...
John Fox won literary acclaim as one of the foremost chroniclers of life in the southeastern United States. "A Cumberland Vendetta" traces the roots and tragic consequences of one of the feuds that ripped apart many Southern communities in the nineteenth century.
John Fox won literary acclaim as one of the foremost chroniclers of life in the southeastern United States. "A Cumberland Vendetta" traces the roots a...
