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Lillian Harris Dean (1870–1929) was an African-American cook and entrepreneur who became a minor national celebrity in the 1920s for bringing the cuisine of Harlem to national attention. ==Early life and career== Dean was born in the Mississippi Delta. She migrated to New York and became a highly successful entrepreneur who catered to the culinary tastes of other displaced African-American Southerners living in Harlem. She took the name Pig Foot Mary because she turned marketing traditional foods such as pigs' feet, hog maws, chitterlings (chitlins), and other foods into a thriving business. Though she did not attain the fame or millionaire status of Madam C.J. Walker, Dean was an early example of African-American entrepreneurial success in the post-Civil War era. Dean began by selling food out of a makeshift cart — actually, a re-purposed baby carriage — at the corner of West 135th Street (what is now Malcolm X Boulevard). In time, she was able to afford a steam table booth, which she attached to the corner newsstand — and she married the newsstand owner, John Dean. Her biography is summed up in these two paragraphs by prominent African-American journalist Roi Ottley, writing in 1943: She is described by James Weldon Johnson in his 1925 magazine article, ''The Making of Harlem'': Johnson provided a slightly different version in 1930's ''Black Manhattan'': 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lillian Harris Dean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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