Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America\'s most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking .
Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, a community first founded by black families freed from slavery, and to commemorate the seasonal richness of southern food, articulating the moments when ``we would gather wild honey from the hollow of oak trees to go with the hot biscu.
Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America\'s most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking