The Taste of Country Cooking / Edna Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Edna, author.

Contributor:

Nancy Klavans Cookery Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Virginia.

Cooking.

African American cooking.

Seasonal cooking.

Cooking, American.

Freetown (Va.)--History.

Freetown (Va.).

Virginia.

Genre:

cookbooks.

menus.

Cookbooks.

History.

Menus.

Penn Provenance:

Klavans, Nancy (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], xv, [1], 260, viii, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.,

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Contents:

Introduction

Spring. Introduction; An Early Spring Dinner after Sheep-Shearing; A Spring Breakfast when the Shad were Running; A Late Spring Lunch after Wild-Mushroom Picking; A Late Spring Dinner with Spring-Hatched Chicken; A Hearty Midday Dinner

Summer. Introduction; A Creamed Ham and Sweet Potato Breakfast; An Early Summer Lunch of the Season's Delicacies; An Early Summer Dinner of Veal, Scallions, and the First Berries; A Prepared-Ahead Summer Dinner; Midsummer Sunday Breakfast; A Busy-Day Summer Dinner; Putting up Fruits and Vegetables; pickles, and Wine; Wheat-Harvesting Midday Dinner; Making Ice Cream on a Summer Afternoon; Sunday Revival Dinner; A Cool-Evening Supper; The Night for a Boiled Virginia Ham Dinner

Fall. Introduction; Breakfast before Leaving for Race Day; Race Day Picnic; Making Wine, Persimmon Beer, and a Fall Preserve; Emancipation Day Dinner; Fall Breakfast before a Day of Hunting; Hunting Season Dinner; Morning-After-Hog-Butchering Breakfast; Preparations for Christmas

Winter. Introduction; Christmas Breakfast; Christmas Dinner; A Snowy Winter Breakfast; A Dinner Celebrating the Last of the Barnyard Fowl; A Dinner from the Leg of Beef; A Bean Summer; A Dinner of Chicken and Dumplings and Warm Gingerbread

Appendix. A Note on Baking Powder; A Note on Herbs to Grow on the Windowsill.

Notes:

This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

"She evokes the tantalizing aromas of a farm kitchen. She brings back the fresh, natural tastes of the wonderful cooking she was raised on in Virginia. She shares old family recipes in menus that make the most of each season's bounty."--Cover.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Klavans Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Nancy Klavans in 2016.

Klavans copy has hole punched in upper right hand of cover.

Klavans copy has water stains on front cover and preliminary pages; warped pages.

ISBN:

0394483111

9780394483115

9780394732152

0394732154 (paper) :

OCLC:

1959463