The Southern Cookbook Collection contains the essential recipes of southern cuisine. The Virginia Housewife is a cookbook by the esteemed cook Mary Randolph of Richmond, Virginia. Meanwhile, what Mrs. Fisher Knows about Southern cooking contains the cooking secrets of a freed slave cook. Meanwhile, as Suggested by Rufus, Good Things to Eat is the first book ever written by an African-American chef. Together, these books give a delicious and authentic overview of southern cuisine in the 19th Century.