Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Food & Wine / Photo by Rachel Marek / Food Styling by Holly Dreesman / Props Stylng by Gabriel It's impossible to overstate the ...

A half-century after "The Taste of Country Cooking" transformed American foodways, Edna Lewis' voice and vision still nourish ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Edna Lewis was perhaps New York City’s greatest Black chef of the last ...

“My mother often served us a supper of kidney bean soup or a pot of baked beans on a winter night,” Edna Lewis writes in her 1976 classic, “The Taste of Country Cooking,” adding that the rest of the ...

“I grew up in Freetown, Virginia, a community of farming people. It wasn’t really a town. The name was adopted because the first residents had all been freed from chattel slavery, and they wanted to ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — As we honor Black History Month, we're also celebrating the rich cuisine created by African American chefs and restaurateurs. Local chef and event planner Marianne Tshihamba shared ...

Edna Lewis's apple brown Betty, served at Gordonsville Ice House in Gordonsville, Va. Brunswick stew with cornbread at The Barbeque Exchange in Gordonsville. Chef Zachary Andrews preparing “quail ...

Edna Lewis (1916–2006) was a pioneering American chef, author, and champion of Southern farm-to-table cooking who helped define and preserve the cuisine of rural Black communities in the South. Born ...

It's impossible to overstate the importance of Edna Lewis in the pantheon of American chefs — especially in the realm of Southern cuisine. Lewis exalted and explained farm-to-table cooking in the ...