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The journalist and content creator sat down with The Advocate on the anniversary of creating their popular social media account.
Edna Lewis became a chef at a time when female chefs, let alone black female chefs, were few and far between. Known throughout Manhattan as the Grand Dame of Southern Cooking , Lewis turned New York’s Cafe Nicholson into an artist’s mecca that served 20th Century luminaries like Truman Capote, Greta Garbo, Lillian Hellman, Marlene Dietrich and Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Her landmark 1976 book, THE TASTE OF COUNTRY COOKING, was one of the first cookbooks by an African-American woman to reach a wide audience, sparking a nationwide interest in Southern country-style cooking , and in 2003 Lewis wrote THE GIFT OF SOUTHERN COOKING with her culinary companion Scott Peacock.
