A book that I really think is important in the canon of American cookbooks is Cross Creek Cookery. It was written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and published in 1942. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because she is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Yearling and other books set in Florida. Cross Creek was her 72-acre orange grove where she wrote and tended to her orchard. In her own word...