Against the Odds, A Widowed Black Woman Turned a Dream into a Reality
In the spring of 1938, a widowed Black woman stepped off a bus in Saratoga Springs, New York. She was alone, with no family and no job. She had $33 in her pocket, a cast-iron skillet, and a mind full of recipes her mother never wrote down, only passed on in flavor. Her name was Hattie Austin... Sign in to see full entry.