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Title: Edna Lewis Knows Her Stuff
Review: This purchase was a gift for a friend who had admired and cooked from my falling-apart-copy for a year. Every dish is excellent but it's the explanations she gives that make this a well-used book in our house. I've cooked from scratch for thirty years and have never found explanations such as Lewis gives for 'why' to do this or that. Her chicken & dumplings is the stuff of legends in our house and now our community. People beg for the recipe. Be forwarned, the recipes aren't health food in the sense that Lewis doesn't fret about using butter or cream when needed. But these are foods with no ingredient list. They come from the farms where she grew up. She groups her recipes around seasons and events such as, A Snowy Winter Breakfast, and An Early Spring Dinner After Sheep Shearing. Her recipes are best recreated if you have access to garden produce, pasture-raised meats and some wild game but are successful even when using grocery store ingredients.
