Southern Cooking Icon Edna Lewis Gets Her Due

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Edna Lewis was one of the first Black women to write a successful mainstream cookbook about the South. She talked about seasonality and farm-to-table cooking long before it got trendy, and she tied that approach to the way she grew up in Virginia. So why isn’t Edna Lewis better known?

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0:00.0	The first thing that I thought of is barbecue.
0:05.3	A lot of people think that barbecue, first of all, started in other places.
0:09.4	It starts in Virginia, first of all.
0:10.9	Let's put that out there.
0:13.2	Okay, all right.
0:14.2	Anyone who disagrees can send emails directly to Deb.
0:18.1	I've gotten emails before.
0:19.9	I've gotten them before. I've gotten them before.
0:21.1	I'm not new to this.
0:26.3	This is the Sporkful.
0:27.9	It's not for foodies.
0:29.0	It's for eaters.
0:29.8	I'm Dan Pashman.
0:31.0	Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.
0:34.7	Now, quick heads up before we get into it, we are getting ready to tape another
0:37.3	call-in show. So if you have a food-related disagreement or dispute with a friend or loved one,
0:42.6	maybe you've got a food hot take to share, I want to hear from you. Email me at hello at sporkful.com
0:49.3	by February 26th, and you might find yourself in the episode. Thanks. Okay, now on today's show, we are
0:56.2	continuing the Sporkfuls Month in the South. We've already driven across Alabama and Mississippi,
1:01.5	eating at some incredibly delicious gas stations. We did a live show in Memphis, and today
1:05.9	we're focusing on Virginia, with someone who's not afraid to say that barbecue was invented
1:10.1	there. That's Deb
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