Fan Casting

Jim bought Book by Mrs. Tyree and became the narrator of this story when he began to tell it to his children to prove to his daughter that being a housewife is not a bad thing. Marion Cabell Tyree was Afroamerican housekeeping wife, who lived in Virginia. She married Samuel Tyree of Lynchburg, a successful businessman, and the couple had a beautiful and comfortable home in which they dispensed in the most gracious and genial manner that hospitality for which old Virginia was famous. During the Civil War, Tyree cared for the Confederate sick and wounded who were far from home and family, managing to provide them with food and medical remedies despite wartime blockades and shortages. Marion Cabell Tyree was the last surviving granddaughter of Patrick Henry and the daughter of Spotswood Henry. She was the author of an influential cookbook Housekeeping in Old Virginia. She compiled recipes for her cookbook using two hundred and fifty famous housewives in Virginia. Modern scholars of the culture of the Southern United States after the American Civil War have identified the rhetorical techniques used by Tyree to establish credibility for her book and its heritage. She lists the names of all those who contributed recipes. And who is the mystery Mrs. S. T., who is funder of Iced Tea and author of best recipes?