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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Lewis, Edna.     Subjects     Cooking -- Virginia.     Cooking, American.     Freetown (Va.) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lewis, Edna.       by title:      The taste of country...       by call number:      641.5975 L673t     Search the Web     Lewis, Edna.     Cooking -- Virginia.     Cooking, American.     Freetown (Va.) -- History.       MARC Display

The taste of country cooking / Edna Lewis. by Lewis, Edna. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, c1976. Call #: 641.5975 L673t Subjects Cooking -- Virginia.   Cooking, American.   Freetown (Va.) -- History. ISBN:  9780307265609 (hc.) Description:  xxi, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes:  Originally published May 28, 1976. Includes index. Contents:  Foreword / by Alice Waters -- Preface / by Judith Jones -- Introduction -- Spring. Introduction ; An early spring dinner after sheep-shearing ; A spring breakfast when the shad were running ; A late spring lunch after wild-mushroom picking ; A late spring dinner with spring-hatched chicken ; A hearty midday dinner -- Summer. Introduction ; A creamed ham and sweet potato breakfast ; An early summer lunch of the season's delicacies ; An early summer dinner of veal, scallions, and the first berries ; A prepared-ahead summer dinner ; Midsummer Sunday breakfast ; A busy-day summer dinner ; Putting up fruits and vegetables, pickles, and wine ; Wheat-harvesting midday dinner ; Making ice cream on a summer afternoon ; Sunday revival dinner ; A cool-evening supper ; The night for a boiled Virginia ham dinner -- Fall. Introduction ; Breakfast before leaving for race day ; Race day picnic ; Making wine, persimmon beer, and a fall preserve ; Emancipation Day dinner ; Fall breakfast before a day of hunting ; Hunting season dinner ; Morning-after-hog-butchering breakfast ; Preparations for Christmas -- Winter. Introduction ; Christmas Eve supper ; Christmas breakfast ; Christmas dinner ; A snowy winter breakfast ; A dinner celebrating the last of the barnyard fowl ; A dinner from the leg of beef ; A bean supper ; A dinner of chicken and dumplings and warm gingerbread -- A note on baking powder -- A Note on herbs to grow on the windowsill. Summary:  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. 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. Genre:  Cookbooks. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 641.5975 L673t Core Collection - Adult Transit Request Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 641.5975 L673t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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