Edna Lewis’s Life And Legacy, With Tanya Holland And Nina Williams-Mbengue Live At Cooks & Books

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Edna Lewis is one of the most important and influential American chefs. She celebrated Southern cooking and foodways in her seminal work, 1976’s "The Taste Of Country Cooking," and helped inspire the farm-to-table movement. At her side for some of this journey was her niece, Nina, who not only got to enjoy her aunt’s food, but who typed up the manuscript for her groundbreaking cookbook as a young teen. Today, Nina Williams-Mbengue is a retired child welfare expert and a board member of The Edna Lewis Foundation. She joined chef, TV personality, and "California Soul" author Tanya Holland to reminisce about her experiences with her aunt and to talk about Edna’s life and legacy. Thank you to Yes! Apples for supporting today's show. This interview took place at the 2nd annual Cherry Bombe Cooks & Books festival at Ace Hotel Brooklyn. Our next event is the Cherry Bombe Jubilee conference. Get your ticket here. Radio Cherry Bombe is recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Our theme song is by the band Tralala. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. More on Nina: Instagram, Listen to Nina on Radio Cherry Bombe from 2021 More on Tanya: Instagram, Check out Tanya’s new book, "California Soul"

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0:00.0	Hi, Boys and girls are all fired up.
0:07.0	Hi everyone, you're listening to Radio Cherry Baumond, coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City. I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb magazine. Each week, I talk to the most interesting culinary personalities around. Today's episode is a conversation about the late great chef and culinary trailblazer, Edna Lewis, recorded live at our second annual Cooks and Books Festival at Ace Hotel Brooklyn.
0:45.3	Chef, author, and TV personality, Tanya Holland, interviewed Edna's niece, Nina Williams-Zembang about Edna's life and legacy.
0:53.8	Nina, who retired a few years ago from a long career in child welfare,
0:57.6	is a board member of the Edna Lewis Foundation.
1:00.5	Amazingly, when she was just 12 years old,
1:03.4	Nina typed up the manuscript for Edna's 1976 cookbook,
1:07.5	The Taste of Country Cooking.
1:09.5	That book is widely considered one of the most important
1:12.6	American cookbooks around. Stay tuned for Tanya and Nina. Today's show is presented by Yes Apples.
1:19.6	If you love apples, you need to know about Yes Apples, a company that celebrates apples
1:24.7	from New York State. You might not know this, but New York is famous
1:28.7	for its amazing apples. Yes, apples are grown on more than 50 different family-owned farms
1:34.3	across New York. And yes apples is also woman-owned, which you know we love here at Cherrybaum.
1:40.9	You can find yes apples at grocery stores around the country, but you can also order
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1:50.0	and that's in season, such as the classic honey crisps or newcomers like Ever Crisp and Snapdragon.
1:56.2	I ordered myself a box of pink lady apples the other day because, well, I eat a lot of apples.
2:01.2	And the flavor profile was so intriguing. Bright, sweet tart flavors of melon, lemon grass,
2:07.4	and tart cherry. I love tossing an apple in my bag as a healthy snack when I'm running to the
2:12.1	podcast studio or when I'm working from home. I snack on apples with peanut butter a lot.
2:17.8	I'm excited there will be some fresh, juicy, delicious yes apples in my fridge to enjoy very soon.
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