Little Receipts Vol. 4 — Yum! Stories from Our Kitchens and Gardens (Standard Companion Edition — EPUB Edition)

George Washington Carver loves farmers and dirt in equal measure, and finds use after use for peanuts and sweet potatoes — the counts are printed attributed, because the National Park Service's 'over 300' and the Carver Museum's 287 are both in the record. One correction stands at the front of his chapter: Carver did not invent peanut butter, and the book proves the correction from his own patents rather than just asserting it. Edna Lewis carries Freetown, Virginia country cooking to big-city restaurants and writes it down by the seasons. Church kitchens and home cooks — Georgia Gilmore's Club from Nowhere among them — quietly fund schoolbooks, roofs, and bus rides; the book prints no dollar total it cannot source. Augustus Jackson, a Black cook and confectioner known for ice cream, gets the most careful chapter in the volume: his record is thin, the popular 'invented ice cream' claim is corrected in the chapter itself, and no date, recipe, or portrait is used that the record does not support. Gardens behind the house remember what people were not allowed to write down. And Leah Chase, the Queen of Creole Cooking, feeds everybody at Dooky Chase's — including the civil-rights workers meeting upstairs; her presidential guests are named only where the record names them: Bush and Obama.

All 6 chapters, full text (13,264 words). Every chapter closes with its sources and a method note — where the record disagrees, the disagreement is printed, not papered over. The clean EPUB edition (STANDARD COMPANION EDITION), readable on any e-reader, tablet, or phone.

The chapters:

George Washington Carver and the Wonderful Peanut

Edna Lewis Cooks the Seasons

The Peach Cobbler Fundraiser: Church Kitchens That Built Things

Augustus Jackson and Ice Cream fit for a President's Table

Gardens Behind the House: Okra, Greens, and Seeds That Traveled

Leah Chase, the Queen of Creole Cooking, Feeds a Movement

Big history. Little readers. All receipts.