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(0)Edna Lewis
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In recipes and reminiscences equally delicious, Edna Lewis celebrates the uniquely American country cooking she grew up with some fifty years ago in a small Virginia Piedmont farming community that had been settled by freed slaves. With menus for the four seasons, she shares the ways her family prepared and enjoyed food, savoring the delights of each special time of year.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Updated edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Edna Lewis was a pioneer in the celebration of seasonal food as a distinctly American cuisine. In this update of the 1988 edition, Lewis shares the recipes of her childhood, spent in a Virginia farming community founded by her grandfather and his friends after emancipation, as well as those that made her one of the most revered American chefs of all time. Interspersed throughout are personal anecdotes, cooking insights, notes on important Southern...