{{Short description|American food writer (1940–1988)}} '''Ernest Matthew Mickler''' (Pronounced MYkler) (August 23, 1940 &ndash; November 15, 1988) was the author of ''White Trash Cooking'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Personal Papers of and Papers Relating to Ernest M. Mickler |url=https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/329160 |website=Special and Area Studies Collections |publisher=George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida |access-date=31 July 2022}}</ref> a cookbook with recipes from the American Southeast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bittersoutherner.com/the-short-and-brilliant-life-of-ernest-matthew-mickler|title=The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler|website=THE BITTER SOUTHERNER}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/18/obituaries/ernest-matthew-mickler-48-dies-author-of-best-selling-cookbook.html|title=Ernest Matthew Mickler, 48, Dies; Author of Best-Selling Cookbook|first=Susan Heller|last=Anderson|newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 18, 1988}}</ref>

Mickler grew up in rural Florida. Mickler also wrote ''Sinkin Spells, Hot Flashes, Fits and Cravins'', now sold as ''White Trash Cooking II''. He died of AIDS in 1988, aged 48.<ref>{{cite news|first=John T. |last=Edge |title=LET US NOW PRAISE FABULOUS COOKS: From the Florida swamps, a cookbook that turned a slur into a badge of honor. |date=Winter 2006 |url=http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/content.cfm?ArticleID=46&Entry=Extras |work=Oxford American |accessdate=2006-10-04 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909171549/http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/content.cfm?ArticleID=46&Entry=Extras |archivedate=2006-09-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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