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This was the first cookbook I ever saw, let alone read, that strayed from the usual format.

This is a cookbook to read in bed.

I love Miss Lewiss intimate, evocative writing about growing up on a farm in Freetown, Virginia.

Honey From a Weed by Patience Gray

Theres never been anyone like Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and there never will be.

She is such an important source of inspiration for me, reluctant recipe writer and follower that I am.

I cook by vibration.

The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis

I can tell by the look and smell of it.

Most of the ingredients in this book are approximate.

Different strokes for different folks.

My Bombay Kitchen by Niloufer Ichaporia King

Do your thing your way.

Most everything I know about Nigerian cooking, Ive learned from Ms. Aribisala, the nations finest culinary writer.

Most Americans have never heard of African-American chef and cookbook author Edna Lewis.

Gran Cocina Latina by Maricel Presilla

His work has influenced so many of my own mentors that I feel like hes my own teacher.

This is one of my favorite collections of his.

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Vibration Cooking: Or, the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee

Longthroat Memoirs by Yemisi Aribisala

Edna Lewis: At the Table With an American Original edited by Sara Franklin

Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry

The Hungry Ear edited by Kevin Young