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The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5975
EAN: 9780307265609
Edition: 13 Anv
ISBN: 0307265609
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: August 01, 2006
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: August 01, 2006
Studio: Knopf
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Editorial Review: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:• The fresh taste of spring—the first shad, wild mushrooms, garden strawberries, field greens and salads . . . honey from woodland bees . . . a ring mold of chicken with wild mushroom sauce . . . the treat of braised mutton after sheepshearing.• The feasts of summer—garden-ripe vegetables and fruits relished at the peak of flavor . . . pan-fried chicken, sage-flavored pork tenderloin, spicy baked tomatoes, corn pudding, fresh blackberry cobbler, and more, for hungry neighbors on Wheat-Threshing Day . . . Sunday Revival, the event of the year, when Edna’s mother would pack up as many as fifteen dishes (what with her pickles and breads and pies) to be spread out on linen-covered picnic tables under the church’s shady oaks . . . hot afternoons cooled with a bowl of crushed peaches or hand-cranked custard ice cream.• The harvest of fall—a fine dinner of baked country ham, roasted newly dug sweet potatoes, and warm apple pie after a day of corn-shucking . . . the hunting season, with the deliciously “different” taste of game fattened on hickory nuts and persimmons . . . hog-butchering time and the making of sausages and liver pudding . . . and Emancipation Day with its rich and generous thanksgiving dinner.• The hearty fare of winter—holiday time, the sideboard laden with all the special foods of Christmas for company dropping by . . . the cold months warmed by stews, soups, and baked beans cooked in a hearth oven to be eaten with hot crusty bread before the fire.The scores of recipes for these marvelous dishes are set down in loving detail. 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. Having made us yearn for all the good meals she describes in her memories of a lost time in America, Edna Lewis shows us precisely how to recover, in our own country or city or suburban kitchens, the taste of the fresh, good, natural country cooking that was so happy a part of her girlhood in Freetown, Virginia.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Just Brilliant
After having purchased Miss Edna's book with Scott Peacock, I was sure I needed this one too - I was right! This book is a cookbook as well as a history book and provides great insight into a time forgotten by many. No you can't easily get hog jowls or some of the wild greens but you can take those concepts and apply them to today's ingredients. These recipes take me back to the simple but fabulous meals my grandmothers' and great aunts use to prepare from my childhood. I can still remember those ... Read More
Rating:  - It's ok.
I love Southern everything. Wanted to cook some authentic dishes, this was ok... I tried a few, then
got bored, not exactly super... not bad, but no stars in my eyes.
Rating: - Delightful Cookbook for Folks who Love to Eat...
I bought this book as a gift without having seen it first hand.
The response was so exciting that I've given it again and again as well as bought one for myself...
If you are a person who enjoys reading cookbooks as well as trying new recipes and eating the delicious results, this unusually fine book is a triple treat for you & your lucky friends.
Rating: - Wonderful to read and savor!!!
This book is an eye opener into the life and legacy of Edna Lewis. I tried some of the simple recipes and loved them, this book is like a treasure chest that will fill your home with the most amazing smells. And almost makes you want to move to the south!
Rating: - Taste of Country Cooking
This book is more than a cookbook. Each section describes the setting, purpose and the details about the ingredients used. It is a history book, too. Even 'tho we have quick and easy ingredients, Edna beleived in doing things from scratch and the fresher the product, the better. Wonderful reading. The Parker House rolls and the Sweet Potatoe Pie are awesome!!!
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