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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 100 items) |
Abstract | Papers of Bill Neal (1950-1991), a white Southern chef, author, and co-founder of restaurants La Residence and Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill, N.C., contain typed and handwritten recipes and introductory essays for Bill Neal's southern cooking and page proofs, artwork, copy edited sections, partial drafts, notes, and photocopied clippings of columns by gardening author Elizabeth Lawrence relating to Bill Neal's Gardener's Latin: a lexicion. The collection also contains typescript and published versions of articles, fiction, and recipes by Bill Neal; scattered correspondence with publishers and literary agents; and other items. |
Creator | Neal, Bill. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Jackie Dean, December 2023
Encoded by: Jackie Dean, December 2023
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Bill Neal (1950-1991), was a white Southern chef, food writer, and co-founder of restaurants La Residence and Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill, N.C. Neal's publication's include Bill Neal's southern cooking (1985), Biscuits, spoonbread, and sweet potato pie (1990), and Good old grits cookbook : have grits your way with David Perry (1991) along with many articles and essays about Southern cooking. He also published Gardener's Latin: a lexicion in 1992 with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Back to TopTyped and handwritten recipes and introductory essays for Bill Neal's southern cooking and page proofs, artwork, copy edited sections, partial drafts, notes, and photocopied clippings of columns by gardening author Elizabeth Lawrence relating to Bill Neal's Gardener's Latin: a lexicion. The collection also contains typescript and published versions of articles, fiction, and recipes by Bill Neal; scattered correspondence with publishers and literary agents; and other items.
Back to TopBox 1 |
Bill Neal's southern cooking, circa 1985-1991Primarily typed and handwritten recipes and introductory essays for the recipes. Also includes correspondence with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and UNC Press. |
Box 2 |
Gardener's Latin: a lexicion, circa 1992Page proofs, artwork, copy edited sections, partial drafts, notes, and photocopied clippings of columns by gardening author Elizabeth Lawrence. |
Box 3 |
Assorted papers, circa 1990sPublications with articles and recipes by Bill Neal; a typescript of an article on low country cooking by Bill Neal; typescript of a short story by Bill Neal; and other items. |