This joyful coming together of two extraordinary cooks delivers 225 recipes and reflections on Southern food. Interwoven throughout are wonderful stories about the people and the traditions that shaped these genuinely American recipes. 60 full-color photos.
Edna Lewis provides not only recipes but reminiscences that have been collected over the years by her family--originally, free slaves who settled on a Virginia farm. A unique and beautifully illustrated book about American food, history, and life.
Edna Lewis first learned to cook by watching her mother prepare food in their small farming community in Virginia. In chapters devoted to fruit and vegetables, meat and fowl, fish, herbs and spices, bread, and other baked goods, she shares her secrets and recipes for getting the best out of food.
Edna Lewis provides not only recipes but reminiscences that have been collected over the years by her family--originally, free slaves who settled on a Virginia farm. A unique and beautifully illustrated book about American food, history, and life.
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