Hill's Kitchen June Cookbook Club: The Taste of Country Cooking

Pull up a chair for our fourth Cookbook Club — and this month we are cooking from one of the most important American cookbooks ever written.

HOW IT WORKS

Everyone prepares a dish from THE TASTE OF COUNTRY COOKING by Edna Lewis ahead of the event. Once you register, you'll receive access to a shared spreadsheet where you and fellow attendees can sign up for the dish of your choice. Then on June 25th we gather in the kitchen at Hill's Kitchen to share the meal, talk through the author's perspective, and swap notes on our own experiences cooking through the book.

Cookbook Club members also receive 15% off in-store for the month of June (appliances excluded).

If you'd like a copy of the book, you can add one to your ticket at checkout and pick it up in-store beginning Tuesday, June 2nd.

ABOUT THE BOOK

With the publication of The Taste of Country Cooking in 1976, Edna Lewis proclaimed the food of the American South one of the world’s great cuisines. From the field greens and salads of spring; pan-fried chicken and crushed peaches in summer; preserves and sweet potatoes for fall; and hearty soups and stews during the cold winter months, Miss Lewis (as she was almost universally known) extolled the vir­tues of the good food of her childhood, spent in a Virginia farming community founded by her grandfather and his friends after Emancipation.

A celebration of eating locally—decades before “farm to table” became common parlance—the book showcases the joys of cooking with the seasons.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edna Lewis was born in 1916 in Freetown, Virginia, a farming community founded after the Civil War by freed slaves (among them her grandfather) and for many years lived and cooked in New York City. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural James Beard Living Legend and Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) Lifetime Achievement Awards, the Grande Dame des Dames d’Escoffier International, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Lifetime Achievement Award. Her books were inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame, and she was commemorated with a United States Postal Service postage stamp. Miss Lewis was the author of The Edna Lewis Cookbook, The Taste of Country Cooking, In Pursuit of Flavor, and, with Scott Peacock, The Gift of Southern Cooking. She died in February 2006.

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