Mt. Lebanon to Vermont; Autobiography of George Haddad : taken down by his daughter Emily Marie Haddad, with the assistance of Bernice Rachel Tuttle; with an introduction by John Abner Mead.
Rutland, Vt. The Tuttle Co., 1916.
Octavo, 187 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Recorded by his daughter Emily Marie Haddad, with the assistance of Bernice Rachel Tuttle; with an introduction by John Abner Mead. While much of the book is the autobiography, the final thirty-five pages are given over to Syrian recipes, supplied by Mrs. George Haddad. One of the earliest – if not the earliest –appearance of Middle Eastern recipes published in the US. Syrians and other Arabs had been emigrating to the US since the time of the Civil War, but a significant influx – nearly 90,000 Syrians – took place between 1899 and 1919. At the time, the term "Syrian" included people from a larger piece of territory as it had been defined in the Ottoman Empire, stretching from the mountains of Southeastern Asia to the Horn of Africa. Publisher's gilt-decorated black cloth slightly faded, otherwise fine. [OCLC locates thirty-seven copies; not found in Newman, Melting Pot or Wertsman, What's Cooking in Multicultural America].
Price: $350.00