Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edna Lewis, the culinary virtuoso and undisputed godmother of Southern cooking, left an undeniable mark on the food industry.

SOUTHERN LEGACY Chef Leah Branch says beloved Black chef Edna Lewis ‘was a person who had a beautiful, idyllic life and enjoyed it and shared it with other people.’ (Photo courtesy of Field Studio) In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At Gage & Tollner, one of the oldest restaurants in Brooklyn, New York, lives a legacy that starts with the menu inspired by one ...

Sometimes, the best gifts are the ones you already have and rediscover later on. Recently, the Kitchen Sisters - producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva - stumbled across an interview they recorded ...

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 ...

"I will never forget spring mornings in Virginia," chef Edna Lewis writes in her seminal 1976 cookbook, "The Taste of Country Cooking." About an hour east of the land that inspired those words, the ...

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 ...

Edna Lewis was a trailblazing chef and writer who helped define and elevate Southern cuisine. Reset sits down with the founder of National Soul Food Month to talk about the cultural roots of Lewis’ ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A special screening in Chicago will celebrate the rich history of soul food in America. A new documentary tells the story of Edna Lewis, a woman who inspired generations of chefs ...