We come to understand the values that formed the remarkable woman-her love of nature, the pleasure of living with the seasons, the sense of community, the satisfactory feeling that hard work was always rewarded by her mother’s good food. The scores of recipes for these marvelous dishes are set down in loving detail. With menus for the four seasons, she shares the ways her family prepared and enjoyed food, savoring the delights of each special time of year. 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.
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