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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Died. Willie Wimbish Daniel, Atlanta's famed and ageless Negro cateress; of pneumonia; in Atlanta. The daughter of slaves, she moved to Atlanta from Greenville, Ga. in the 1880s, became a supreme authority on Southern cooking, prepared banquets for many a visiting President, always turned up for a job in a shiny motorcar. She claimed she learned to cook from "a Yankee lady, a Mrs. Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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