Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original road trip Talc's Bloody Marys -- complement

Talc's Bloody Marys -- complement a wealth of fascinating detail about the epicurean side of the novel's memorable settings

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Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original road trip Talc's Bloody Marys -- complementAuthor: Sara B. Franklin 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. With such observations as we would gather wild honey from the hollow of oak trees to go with the hot