Ebony magazine food editor Freda DeKnight’s A Date with a Dish: A Cook Book of American Negro Recipes,  published in 1948, inspired a generation of cooks. Both a cookbook and cultural guide, it changed the course of black culinary history and shaped everything from family gatherings to social movements in the process.

Read more: How Freda DeKnight’s Cookbook, ‘A Date with a Dish’ Inspired Generations of Black Cooks by Hannah Giorgis in Bon Appetit (2018)