Abstract
ABSTRACTOver the two centuries since its publication, Mary Randolph's 1824 cookbook has become embedded in discourses of historic memory. These discourses have obscured the racial and gendered politics, resistance and conflict present in the book. Randolph's text, when read closely, illuminates the kitchen spaces in which enslaved Black cooks both cooperated and came into conflict with the white women who enslaved them. White supremacy is embedded in the text, and has also shaped its legacy, as museums and historic sites in Virginia and across the nation have used The Virginia House‐wife to bolster simplified and nostalgic views of the antebellum and colonial past.
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