A Real Southern Cook by Dora Charles5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rawlings, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel “The Yearling,” brought New York literati and Hollywood stars to her orange farm to enjoy fine meals of the freshest local ingredients. Rawlings at her home in the village of Cross Creek, Fla., throughout the 1940s. Charles, provided the means for her employer to shine as a food expert, cooking for Ms. Specifically, she juxtaposes Charles and Deen’s story with another celebrity chef, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and her personal cook, Idella Parker. In an Op-Ed piece appearing in this week’s The New York Times, Rebecca Sharpless, author of Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960, traces the long and troubling history of black cooks and their white employers. The downfall of cooking celebrity Paula Deen reached new heights last week as The New York Times interviewed Dora Charles, the African-American chef behind the success of Deen’s award winning restaurant “The Lady and Sons.” Deen has proclaimed their relationship to be that of “soul sisters,” but Charles explains it much differently. ![]()
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