"The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook" by Dorothy I. Height, President, & The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (1994 First Fireside Edition)
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description: The introduction: "A downtown Washington, D.C. office building on a hot Sunday afternoon in midsummer seems an unlikely place for a cookbook to begin. In fact, that is where The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook had its birth. Four women gathered to talk that day over Louisiana Crunch Cake and Shortbread Cookies. A more dissimilar group of women would be hard to imagine. The foursome was made up of these: a mature African-American educator and elected school board member, a mother of three who had just turned forty and decided that her true vocation was to write, a white, Southern publisher with a mission to create books that strengthen the sense of community through the meal, and Dr. Height herself. Originally, the subject we had planned to discuss was the vision Dr. Dorothy Height had for a center to serve as a meeting place, archives and clearing house for all that had to do with African-American women. But Dr. Height, in her own inimitable way, directed the conversation first to her mentor and guiding example, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. The rest of us, who never had the privilege of meeting Mrs. Bethune, sat spellbound as Dr. Height shared stories of meals and experiences in which Mrs. Bethune played a central role. The stories, so personal and fascinating, captured our imaginations. We realized, as the conversation progressed, that it was Mrs. Bethune's legacy embodied in Dr. Height's vision that animated us all. It was that powerful legacy which led us to seek a way to capture the reality and the energy of two of the twentieth century's most remarkable women. The stories, the experiences and the memories formed a colorful quilt that wrapped us all in an exquisite warmth that had nothing to do with the sweltering summer day outside. We sipped cold diet soda that day, instead of the genteel cups of hot tea that Dr. Height told us Mrs. Bethune so favored. Dr. Height told us how she learned from Mrs. Bethune that…
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