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. Lewis has been an inspiration for generations of cooks and cookbook authors. While we both grew up and matured amongst very different backgrounds, there's so much about her books that denote shared experience with anyone who grew up with a family garden, a close community, and a deep love of local ingredients and preparations. Much like an old friend, her books are refreshing, relaxing, and a quiet ode to the changing of the seasons. On those quiet Sunday mornings when the air is still crisp, but warm enough to have coffee on my front porch, I reach for Edna Lewis's books.
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