Edna Lewis

At the Table with an American Original

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2018
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3855-3 (ISBN)

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Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, a community first founded by black families freed from slavery, and to commemorate the seasonal richness of southern food, articulating the moments when ""we would gather wild honey from the hollow of oak trees to go with the hot biscuits and pick wild strawberries to go with the heavy cream."" After living many years in New York City, where she became a chef and a political activist, she returned to the South and continued to write. Her reputation as a trailblazer in the revival of regional cooking and as a progenitor of the farm-to-table movement continues to grow. In this first-ever critical appreciation of Lewis's work, a constellation of food world stars gather to reveal their own encounters with Edna Lewis. Together they penetrate the mythology around Lewis and illuminate her legacy for a new generation.

The essayists are Annemarie Ahearn, Mashama Bailey, Scott Alves Barton, Patricia E. Clark, Natalie Dupree, John T. Edge, Megan Elias, John T. Hill (who provides iconic photographs of Lewis), Vivian Howard, Lily Kelting, Francis Lam, Jane Lear, Deborah Madison, Kim Severson, Ruth Lewis Smith, Toni Tipton-Martin, Michael W. Twitty, Alice Waters, Kevin West, Susan Rebecca White, Carolina Randall Williams, and Joe Yonan. Editor Sara B. Franklin provides an illuminating introduction to Lewis, and the volume closes graciously with afterwords by Lewis's sister, Ruth Lewis Smith, and niece, Nina Williams-Mbengue.

Sara B. Franklin is a writer and food studies scholar teaching at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	4 halftones
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	545 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4696-3855-X / 146963855X
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-3855-3 / 9781469638553
Zustand	Neuware