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[Identification of item], in the Bill Neal Papers #70168, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Matthew Neal in November 2023 (20231101.2)

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Processed by: Jackie Dean, December 2023

Encoded by: Jackie Dean, December 2023

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• Cooking, American--Southern style.
• Food writing.
• Garden writing.
• Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1904-1985
• Neal, Bill.

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.

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.