Princess and the Peas

Description:

In this version of the classic story, Ma Sally of Charleston County, South Carolina, devises a contest for her son's admirers: cook up a dish of black-eyed peas that meets her exacting standards, and the winner can marry her son. Includes recipe for Princess' black-eyed peas.

subjects: Mothers and sons,  Cooking (Peas),  Juvenile fiction,  Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law,  Fiction,  Courtship,  Contests,  African Americans,  Children's fiction,  African americans, fiction,  South carolina, fiction,  Cooking, fiction,  Contests, fiction,  Mothers and sons, fiction

Places: South Carolina,  Charleston County,  Charleston County (S.C.)