In a previous issue of American Legacy we published an excerpt from Carolyn Quick Tillery’s cookbook The African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama’s Renowned Tuskegee Institute (1996). Tillery’s cookbook was a loving tribute to the foods and people of Tuskegee, Alabama and Tuskegee Institute. In it she mixed biographical sketches, historical photographs, reminiscences, even poetry, with the...