Discovering something new is great, but discovering a classic can be even better. In The Taste of Country Cooking, Edna Lewis focuses on the simple, seasonal cooking of her childhood in Freetown, Virginia—a freed slave community founded by her grandfather. It’s one of those cookbooks that we read both for pleasure and for great recipes: Any morning with creamed ham, sweet potatoes, biscuits, and coffee sounds good to us.
Make the caramel pie. Make it now.
Fabulous book with wonderful stories. The fried chicken recipe is gold standard.
This book is an absolute gem. It shows that New American is not so new at all--it is the way people ate before all this processed food became available for so cheap. Then we wonder why America stuggles with a weight problem.