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“My mother often served us a supper of kidney bean soup or a pot of baked beans on a winter night,” Edna Lewis writes in her 1976 classic, “The Taste of Country Cooking,” adding that the rest of the ...

Edna Lewis's apple brown Betty, served at Gordonsville Ice House in Gordonsville, Va. Brunswick stew with cornbread at The Barbeque Exchange in Gordonsville. Chef Zachary Andrews preparing “quail ...

“I grew up in Freetown, Virginia, a community of farming people. It wasn’t really a town. The name was adopted because the first residents had all been freed from chattel slavery, and they wanted to ...