Quotes from Edna Lewis

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

When the leaves began to fall, all the visitors were gone, and the whistle from the train passing through Orange gave a long, lonesome, shrill sound as it rolled through without stopping to let off any passengers.

My mother died when I was 18. Up until then, I never saw a tin can in my house. (Washington Post interview, 1990)

Ham held the same rating as the basic black dress. If you had a ham in the meat house, any situation could be faced.

Southern is a hot summer day that brings on a violent thunderstorm, cooling the air and bringing up smells of the earth that tempt us to eat the soil.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food.

Women didn't 'learn' how to cook - you were born knowing how.