In addition to providing an interesting perspective of the culinary attitudes of one of the most influential cooks of the 1800s, this book also contains an impressive list of recipes, both exotic and familiar- from catfish and biscuit recipes to fried calf's feet and sweetbread and oyster pie. Randolph also gives instructions on domestic tasks such as making soap and cleaning silver to create a guide every southern homemaker in the 1800s would find useful.