These recipes and more are gathered into a beautiful new book, ”Cleora`s Kitchens: The Memoir of a Cook and Eight Decades of Great American Food,” by Cleora Butler (Council Oak Books Ltd., $24 ...

In the 1940s, with the help of her mother, Butler would bake some 150 small pies a day in her own kitchen to help supplement her family's income. By the mid-50s, she had opened her own successful ...

Those recipes are still getting rave reviews. The book was compiled by Cleora Butler, who began cooking when she was 10 and left home in 1923 to take a job as a cook and kitchen manager for a ...

It took an omelette to bring Cleora Butler to Paulette Millichap. "A friend of mine had eaten an omelette that Cleora had made, and said it was the most fabulous thing she had ever eaten ...

Cleora Butler. Council Oak Books, $26.95 (213pp) ISBN 978-0-933031-02-9. ... With over 300 relatively simple and inexpensive recipes well organized into decades, ...

I learned the backstory of this recipe. Cleora Butler, born in 1901 in Texas into a family of cooks, went north by wagon with her parents, former slaves, to Indian Territory, which they believed ...

Cleora Butler, author of "Cleora's Kitchens: The Memoir of a Cook & Eight Decades of Great American Food," in her home on Sept. 9, 1985. Before there was an official observance of Black History Month ...