Edna Lewis Quotes

When the leaves began to fall, all the visitors were gone, and the whistle from the train passing through Orange gave a long, lonesome, shrill sound as it rolled through without stopping to let off any passengers.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food.

Ham held the same rating as the basic black dress. If you had a ham in the meat house, any situation could be faced.

Women didn't 'learn' how to cook - you were born knowing how.

My mother died when I was 18. Up until then, I never saw a tin can in my house. (Washington Post interview, 1990)

Southern is a hot summer day that brings on a violent thunderstorm, cooling the air and bringing up smells of the earth that tempt us to eat the soil.

Claudia Roden, and Paula Wolfert (Mediterranean), Diana Kennedy and Maricel Presilla (Mexico), Andy Ricker and David Thompson (Thailand), Andrea Nguyen and Charles Phan (Vietnam). For general cooking: James Beard, April Bloomfield, Marion Cunningham, Suzanne Goin, Edna Lewis, Deborah Madison, Cal Peternell, David Tanis, Alice Waters, The Canal House, and The Joy of Cooking. For inspiring writing about food and cooking: Tamar Adler, Elizabeth David, MFK Fisher, Patience Gray, Jane Grigson, and Nigel Slater. For baking: Josey Baker, Flo Braker, Dorie Greenspan, David Lebovitz, Alice Medrich, Elisabeth Prueitt, Claire Ptak, Chad Robertson, and Lindsey Shere.

The white and yellow cornmeal controversy continued. William Riley of Sylva, North Carolina, emphasized, ‘White corn is for folks, yellow for critters.’ Farm families prized their white corn. Texan Pearl Wynn Guderian recalled, ‘Oh, my mother did not want the yellow meal. We always had to plant some white corn so we would have our cornmeal for year-round use.’ The accomplished cooks in famed chef Edna Lewis's African American family in Virginia specified it in many recipes. Southerners loved having a choice about something as elemental as corn.