• Julie Mcmahon
• 23 Mar, 2021

“As a chef, I was relying on cooking as a way to get somewhere else, but what Edna Lewis showed me was that I had no reason to apologize for where I already was. In her written accounts of the people, recipes, rituals, and landscape of her early childhood in Freetown, Virginia—a small settlement founded at the end of the Civil War by her formerly enslaved grandfather—she found no shame or need to escape.
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