Tag: food

The Excellence of Edna Lewis

Edna Lewis’ incredible book The Taste of Country Cooking is not just a cookbook, this work functions both as instructional material and memoir, using recipes to tell the story of a year in the lives of people living in Freetown, the self-sustaining agricultural community in rural Virginia where Lewis grew up. 

The Taste of Memory

The liner notes of Jimmy Smith’s Home Cooking describe a certain song as a series of blue truths. And here we are, all exploring our blue truths. All of us turning to music and art and literature for comfort when those truths become too blue.

Lemon Balm Ice Cream

This ice cream is small reflection of the glowing, balmy restorative days; a distillation of the bright coolness, the sharp scent of new green growth, and the creamy sweetness of perfect air.