Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Edna Lewis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American chef Edna Lewis.

Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Edna Regina Lewis was a renowned American chef, teacher, and author who helped refine the American view of Southern cooking. She championed the use of fresh, in season ingredients and characterized Southern food as fried chicken, pork, and fresh vegetables – most especially greens. She wrote and co-wrote four books which covered Southern cooking and life in a small community of freed slaves and their descendants.

American - Chef | April 13, 1916 - February 13, 2006

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The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.

Edna Lewis

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

Edna Lewis

Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for.

Edna Lewis

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

Edna Lewis