Edna Lewis, the culinary virtuoso and undisputed godmother of Southern cooking, left an undeniable mark on the food industry. Continuing to resonate with both aspiring and seasoned chefs now, her ...

Edna Lewis, who died yesterday at 89, was the doyenne of southern cooking and the author of four cookbooks that featured a halcyon vision of the cookery of her youth in rural Freetown,Va. Her ...

Edna Lewis's apple brown Betty, served at Gordonsville Ice House in Gordonsville, Va. Brunswick stew with cornbread at The Barbeque Exchange in Gordonsville. Chef Zachary Andrews preparing “quail ...

Food & Wine / Photo by Rachel Marek / Food Styling by Holly Dreesman / Props Stylng by Gabriel It's impossible to overstate the importance of Edna Lewis in the pantheon of American chefs — especially ...

Edna Lewis, 89, a chef and the author of acclaimed cookbooks on traditional Southern cuisine, died Feb. 13 at her home in Decatur, Ga. No cause of death was reported. Ms. Lewis co-wrote the 2003 book ...

Get Southern food history at your fingertips. Watch the docuseries, “Finding Edna Lewis,” available on VPM Culture YouTube and social media channels. Host and award-winning food writer and podcaster ...

“I grew up in Freetown, Virginia, a community of farming people. It wasn’t really a town. The name was adopted because the first residents had all been freed from chattel slavery, and they wanted to ...

In honor of Black History Month, Biscuitville is celebrating renowned chef, iconic cookbook author, teacher and preservationist – Edna Lewis (1916 – 2006). In following tradition of years past, ...

Lately, my social media feeds have been full of people strategizing about how to stretch a dollar when feeding their family in the face of inflation. For those who’ve lived in tough financial ...

It's impossible to overstate the importance of Edna Lewis in the pantheon of American chefs — especially in the realm of Southern cuisine. Lewis exalted and explained farm-to-table cooking in the ...