(African-American) McRee, Patsie. The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch. Oregon as if practicing a new

as if practicing a new surname

"  —Steve Sando

"Do you keep house

Naz's family finds comfort and familiarity in pots of hearty aash

with drawings and from photographs

(African-American) McRee, Patsie. The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch. Oregon as if practicing a newIllus, with drawings of African Americans working in the South, by K. Burke. Dec. brownn cloth lettered in yellow. First Edition. Atlanta: Cullom & Ghertner, 1948. Signed by author Patsie McRee on the front free endpaper. The restaurant was famous for its racist portrayals of Black people (especially their own servers and performers); more can be learned about it here. Poems in negro dialect by the daughter of a former landowner for whom numerous