"In recipes and reminiscences equally delicious, Edna Lewis celebrates the uniquely American country cooking she grew up with some fifty years ago in a small Virginia Piedmont farming community that had been settled by freed slaves, [one of whom was her own grandfather]. With menus for the four seasons, she shares the ways her family prepared and enjoyed food, savoring the delights of each special time of year."--Dust jacket flap.

The Taste of Country Cooking is a 1976 cookbook by Edna Lewis. It is considered one of the most important cookbooks of the 20th century and is credited with inspiring the modern farm-to-table movement.