Edna Lewis

Edna Lewis was a master cook. Find some of her recipes here. “Edna Lewis makes me want to go right into the kitchen and start cooking,” Beard himself once said. And in 2014, the U.S. Postal Service noted her culinary contributions with an Edna Lewis stamp. In an era when few […]

This recipe for homemade fried apple pies comes from the legendary Edna Lewis. One taste of Lewis’s hand pies and you’ll forget all about fast-food imitations.

It was a different time, but Edna Lewis was a very different celebrity chef.

This classic Southern cookbook is a little dogeared and worn with use as I cook my way through it with Ms. Edna and Scott

Chef Mashama Bailey chronicles how, in her pursuit to become a professional chef, Edna Lewis’s story inspired her to cook what she loves to eat.

The Edna Lewis Menu Trail in Orange County, Virginia, is a tribute to the groundbreaking chef who helped increase America’s understanding of Southern cuisine.

Credit: Yossy Arefi Credit: Yossy ArefiEdna Lewis corn bread recipe is included in her Morning-After-Hog-Butchering Breakfast menu in The Taste of Country Cooking. Hog killing was one of the special events of the year and generally took place in December, she writes in the introduction. Other recipes in the menu include oven-cooked fresh bacon, country-fried apples, wild strawberry preserves, and plenty of coffee. Edna Lewis The Taste of Country Cooking is Kitchns November pick for our…

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Food Gotta Cook! Don't Come Out of a Can.

33 year old Edna Regina Lewis in 1949, shortly after she began working at Cafe' Nicholson near the United Nations in New York City. (from "The Gift of Southern Cooking" by Edna Lewis & Scott Peacock)