![]() ![]() Perhaps it was due to her unobtrusive demeanor among those who knew her, she is remembered for her quiet way. Though she lived well into the dawn of food television and the celebrity chef era, she never had a television show, nor did she peddle her own line of cookware. ![]() Unlike many of her contemporaries, however, Edna Lewis never became a household name. In 2014, Lewis was honored by the United States Postal Service-commemorated on a postage stamp as much for her advocacy of the farm-to-table methods of traditional Southern cooking as for her rejection of the knee-slapping stereotypes of the American South and its food. The author of four cookbooks-the best known being her 1976 memoir-infused The Taste of Country Cooking-she earned the praise of the food literati of her era, including Craig Claiborne, M.F.K. ![]() When Edna Lewis died in 2006, she was among the most beloved figures of American food. ![]()
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