7/7/2023 0 Comments The taste of country cooking![]() ![]() pan-fried chicken, sage-flavored pork tenderloin, spicy baked tomatoes, corn pudding, fresh blackberry cobbler, and more, for hungry neighbors on Wheat-Threshing Day. The feasts of summer-garden-ripe vegetables and fruits relished at the peak of flavor.the treat of braised mutton after sheepshearing. a ring mold of chicken with wild mushroom sauce. ![]() The fresh taste of spring-the first shad, wild mushrooms, garden strawberries, field greens and salads.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: 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. A richly evocative memoir of a lost time and a practical guide to recovering its joys in your own kitchen. The recipes and reminiscences of the American country cooking Lewis grew up with some 50 years ago. ![]()
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