8 Quotes by Edna Lewis

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

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

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.

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

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

Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for.

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.

The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.