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Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original by [Sara B. Franklin]

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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. With such observations as "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," she commemorated the seasonal richness of southern food. 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, 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, Nathalie 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, Caroline 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.

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Recollections and analysis of [Edna] Lewis, a cornerstone of American cuisine.--Max Watman, The Wall Street Journal

By combining so many perspectives about her life and her cuisine, Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original doubles as an effective biography and a tribute from her range of acolytes.--Foreword Reviews

A compelling examination of Lewis' identity that will appeal to food historians, racial studies scholars, and anyone seeking to learn more about Southern food. A fascinating, prismatic look at the legacy of one of America's most beloved chefs.--Kirkus Reviews

[A] perfect traveling companion.--Southern Living

A beautiful ode to a grande dame of Southern cuisine.--Garden & Gun

This collection of essays by devotees of Miss Lewis (the title by which contemporaries showed their respect and love) serves as an appreciation of her life, her achievements, and her legacy.--Booklist, starred review

A delicious tribute to a doyenne of the culinary world. . . . Franklin casts a wide net with the many colorful people who encountered the legendary creator of The Taste of Country Cooking.--Patrik Henry Bass, Essence

Throughout this collection, Franklin meets and exceeds her goal of inviting readers to the table with Edna Lewis by presenting a nuanced portrait of her food and her life.--Journal of Southern History

[An] important look at Lewis's culinary legacy.--Eater

Effectively assembles a larger picture from the bits and pieces of [Lewis's] life that were scattered throughout her writings and transmitted by others. Though they're all very different, collectively the essays form a complete portrait of a woman who was ahead of her time--and who left an important legacy.--Food & Wine

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This expansive and poignant anthology--featuring contemporary food writers and thinkers of diverse backgrounds and voices--beautifully honors and interprets the power and enduring legacy of Edna Lewis, a great American chef, cultural commentator, writer, and activist. A groundbreaking book that will bridge popular and academic audiences.--Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of The Edible South and Matzoh Ball Gumbo

--This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B075MTRGVH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press (February 14, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3341 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 259 pages

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I'm a writer, teacher, oral historian, scholar, and avid eater, cook and gardener. I love feeding people and being fed, asking questions and trying to answer them, too.

I'm currently at work on a narrative biography of the legendary editor, Judith Jones (under contract with Signal, a non-fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster), an outgrowth of a longform oral history I conducted with Jones upon her retirement from Knopf at age 88. I also teach courses on food culture, writing, and oral history at NYU's Gallatin School for Individualized Study and via the NYU Prison Education Initiative at Wallkill Correctional Facility.

My first book-- Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original, chronicling and celebrating the life and work of pioneering Southern chef and cookbook writer, Edna Lewis-- was published by UNC Press in 2018 to wide acclaim.

My writing and teaching are informed by my training in history, public health, oral history and documentary studies, as well as my experience in sustainable agriculture, grassroots community development, and strengthening urban-rural food systems in the U.S., South Africa, and Brazil. Before turning to writing and teaching full-time, I held positions as an organic vegetable farmer, restaurant critic, anti-poverty and sustainable agriculture trainer and advocate, urban agriculture instructor, researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, and professional pie baker.

I have a PhD in Food Studies from NYU and studied documentary radio and non-fiction at both the Duke Center for Documentary Studies and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

I live with my husband, twin children, and rambunctious dogs in Kingston, New York.

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Cozbi A. Cabrera

A wonderful collection of essays fro those who yearn to know more about Ms. Edna Lewis

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A wonderful collection of thoughtful and thought provoking essays that cobble together the context and biographical details of what is known of Miss Lewis' talent, impact and legacy. Some of the essays lean into poignancy while sidestepping nostalgia, they all (with the exception of the interview with N. Dupree which spirals into soiling the page) are treated reverentially, and acknowledge Ms. Lewis' knowledge and ever-learning, her love of land, her community's love, labor and appreciation of the fruits of their labor, her immense practicality, attention to detail, her record and her ability to inspire our re-examination of our foodways. Highly recommend Edna Lewis: At The Table With an American Original as a companion volume to The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis and In Pursuit of Flavor.

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Sojourner

The BEST Southern cook.

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Ah! Miss Edna at her finest. For anyone interested in great Southern cooking (and Southern cooking is the best!!). Edna Lewis’ books cannot be beaten.
Miss Edna was a gracious, excellent cook. Her books are filled with her personal comments and although she grew up a descendant if slaves, she moved past that and speaks without prejudice about the South she loved and called home. It was refreshing. No diatribe-just plain old love of cooking and her AMERICA.

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The best part(s) of "Edna Lewis" are the first-person accounts of ...

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The best part(s) of "Edna Lewis" are the first-person accounts of those who knew my second cousin, Edna Lewis. The inclusions of several Edna Lewis-inspired recipes are also noteworthy. I recommend "The Taste of Country Cooking", by Edna Lewis -- for a glimpse at Southern regional cooking and its impact on American cooking, and the "farm-to-table" movement. My personal family relationship bias -- hard to find anything not to like.

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SOUTHERN COMFORT

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Imagine and interview with imho the Queen of southern cooking not a lot of recipes but insight into a southern lady who could cook with the best of them I had the opportunity to sample her cooking when she was at Gage and Toller in downtown Brooklyn not their but one of my best memories of great eating

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This book belongs to the genre of Festschriften--a collection of essays honoring an important person. While the essays gave some amazing sources of insight into Ms. Lewis and her work, the whole does not equal the sum of its parts. I think an integrated biography of study would have been more readable an more helpful.

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Cheryl Barrie

Edna Lewis

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Like the book but was under the impression she wrote some of the book. Didn't realize it was stories about her.

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G. Rene' Bost

Love the book

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It was a heartwarming story of a beautiful soul. Made me think a lot about my grandma and how loving but stern she was. I miss her.

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valieree macGlaun

Great Book

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The is in good condition per sellar

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