Key West

From bestselling author Lucy Burdette, this collection of recipes from her Key West Food Critic mysteries serves up delectable desserts, tempting treats, and savory sides. It's out of the fire and into the frying pan!

A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse, "there to undergo a medical examination, preparatory to embarking for Hilton Head, S.C." Montgomery swept away 126 men.

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