The Taste of Country Cooking.

LEWIS, Edna.

Item Number: 124899

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Bill Keating with warm wishes from Edna Lewis.” In near fine condition. Rare and desirable, especially signed and inscribed.

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.