The Taste of Country Cooking

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A first edition, hardcover book (a) with removable dust jacket (b) of The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis. The cream-colored cover features at center a color photograph of Lewis, outdoors amid blooming sunflowers, wearing a pink dress and carrying a bowl of red tomatoes. Across the top in large black letters is [The Taste of / Country Cooking] and along the bottom [By Edna Lewis]. In white letters at the top left corner of the photograph is [She evokes the tantalizing aromas of a farm / kitchen She brings back the fresh, natural tastes / of the wonderful cooking she was raised on / in Virginia She shares old family recipes / in menus that / make the most of each season's bounty]. The back cover of the jacket is also cream with black text of the title and two blurbs, one by James Beard and one by M.F.K. Fisher.

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