The classic cookbook from the first lady of Southern cooking (NPR), featuring a new foreword by Mashama Bailey, star of Netflix documentary series Chef's Table .
Decades before cornbread, shrimp and grits, and peach cobbler were mainstays on menus everywhere, Edna Lewis was pioneering the celebration of seasonal food as a distinctly American cuisine.
In this James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame-inducted cookbook, Miss Lewis (as she was almost universally know.