Edna Lewis pioneered the celebration of Southern cooking and the farm-to-table movement in New York City in the 1940s and ...

Annual dinner pays homage to the ‘Grande Dame’ of Southern food. Pioneering Southern cook Edna Lewis lived for several years in Decatur, working with her good friend chef Scott Peacock of Horseradish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Food & Wine / Photo by Rachel Marek / Food Styling by Holly Dreesman / Props Stylng by Gabriel It's impossible to overstate the ...

At Gage & Tollner, one of the oldest restaurants in Brooklyn, New York, lives a legacy that starts with the menu inspired by one developed decades ago by chef Edna Lewis. Lewis, who had no formal ...

"Edna Lewis: Chef and Humanitarian," is an exhibit of 40 black-and-white and color photos of Lewis by John T. Hill, a close friend and photographer who made the portrait that adorns her first cookbook ...

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 ...

Brenna Houck is a dining editorial manager for the Eater network overseeing the Cascadia and Midwest regions. She previously edited Eater Detroit and reported for Eater. You can follow her at ...

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 ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Edna Lewis was perhaps New York City’s greatest Black chef of the last ...

She won the James Beard Living Legend Award. She's inspired a novel and a one-woman show. Her face even made its way onto a postage stamp. If you don't know who we're talking about, it's time you got ...