Mukadzi murefu, anorayira, Edna Lewis aivewo giant munyika yekurima uyewo muupenyu. Muzukuru wevasununguko vakasununguka, Edna aizokura kuti ave mukuru mukuru , mumiririri wezvokudya, uye muchengeti wekudenga wekubika. Aizofuridzirwa chizvarwa chevakuru vechidiki uye anovimbisa kuti tsika dzetsika dzeSouth hadzingakanganwiki. Kuwedzera pane munhu akachenjera anobika, Edna Lewis akabata upenyu hweavo vakamupoteredza nenyasha uye kunaka kwehupenyu.
Akafa muna 2006 ava nemakore 89.
Childhood
Edna Lewis akaberekwa musi waApril 13, 1916, muFreetown, Virginia. Aive mumwe wevana vasere. Freetown inharaunda duku yekumaruwa yakavakwa nechekupera kwezana remakore rechi19 nevatatu vasunungurwa varanda, mumwe aiva Lewis's sekuru. Sekuru vake vakatangawo chikoro chekutanga kuFreetown. Makirasi akabatwa muimba yake yekugara.
Kutanga Kubika Zvidzidzo
Lewis akawana unyanzvi hwake hwekubika uye rudo rwekuvandudzwa uye nguva yemazuva inokura muFreetown, uko zvinhu zvakadaro zvaive chikamu chehupenyu. Akadzidza zvakawanda pakubika kwake kubva kuna Tete Jenny. Vakashandisa sito rinobhurwa nehuni kuti vapfeke uye vaisakwanisa kuenzanisa zviyo kana zviyero, saka panzvimbo iyo, vakashandisa mari, vachikanda pfumbi yekubika pamusoro pepennies, munyu pamasikati, uye kubika soda nickels. Lewis anonzi ave akakwanisa kutaura kana ganda raitwa chete nekuteerera.
Kubva Kuduku Guru kusvika kuNew York City
Lewis akabva Freetown ava nemakore 16, mushure mekunge baba vake vafa, uye vakatamira kuWashington uye pakupedzisira vakaenda kuNew York City.
Basa rake rokutanga muNew York City raisanganisira kusungira mumuchengeterwa uye semushandi we Daily Worker. Akanga ainewo zviratidzo zvezvematongerwo enyika uye akakurudzira mutungamiri Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Edna Lewis 'Kubika Inopinda Gwara
MuNew York, Lewis 'kubika kwakaita kuti ave nheyo yemo. Muna 1948, apo vadzidzisi vevakadzi vaiva vashomanana uye vakadzikadzi vemafu vaive vashomanana, Lewis akazarura hotera yake yega naJohn Nicholson, mutengesi wekare uye bhehemian ane ruzivo rwevanhu vakawanda.
Café Nicholson, paEast 57th Street muManhattan, yakanga iri kubudirira kukuru.
Lewis akaita zvose kubika. Zvokudya zvake zvakanga zviri nyore, zvokudya zvinonaka zveSouth asi chikafu chakanga chichikwezva zviso zvakakurumbira zvakadai seTennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Gloria Vanderbilt, Marlene Dietrich, naDiana Vreeland. Lewis akagara neresitorendi kusvika muna 1954. Café Nicholson akatengeswa muna 1999 kuna chef chef Patrickside.
Culinary Career
Lewis akagarawo uye akashanda muChapel Hill, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Decatur, Georgia (nzvimbo yake yekupedzisira yekugara). Akadzidzisa kubika makirasi, zvose zvakarongeka uye zvepamusoro. Kudzidzisa kwake uye mabhuku anobika zvakagadzirisa uye akafuridzira vabati vechidiki vasingaverengeki. Lewis akabata basa somucheka muna 1992. Basa rake rokupedzisira rokubika raiva paGrooklyn & Tollner kuBrooklyn kwaaiva mucheki kwemakore mana.
Pakazosvika pakati pe1990, Lewis neboka rehama dzake vakatanga Sosaiti yekudzorera nekuchengetedzwa kweSouth Food.
Cookbook Munyori
Mukupera kwema makumi matanhatu, Lewis akavhuna gumbo rake uye akamanikidzwa kumira kubika professionally kwekanguva. Munguva iyi, akasarudza kunyora mamwe mapeji ake. Mugumisiro waiva Edna Lewis Cookbook. Iconic culinary figures James ndebvu uye MKF
Fisher akarumbidza bhuku. Bhuku rekutevera rakakosha, bhuku rinonzi The Taste of Country Cooking (1976), rakanga riri rimwe remabhuku ekubika mabhii nemukadzi weAfrica -America kuti asvike kune vateereri vemunyika yose uye anorumbidzwa kuti adzokere kufarira muSouth chaiyo yekubika.
Mabhuku eEdna Lewis 'akafanana nemhemberero dzevanhu pachavo sezvavanounganidza mapeji. Iine nhoroondo dzinonakidza zvekudya kwekuMabvazuva uye kufungidzira muupenyu hwemaruwa kubva paudiki hwake. Mabhuku ake azere nemazano akawanikwa kubva muupenyu hwose hwekubika. Zvitsauko zvaEdna zvekupayona pamusoro pezvokudya zvitsva uye nenguva yakatarwa kare kweAmerican culinary revolution.
Zvimwe Zvinyorwa
Edna Lewis akaroorwa naSteve Kingston, uyo akafa muma1970. Vaiva nemwana wekurera (munhu wekuAfrica), Dr. Afeworki Paulos.
Musi waFebruary 13, 2006, Edna Lewis akafa pazera remakore 89 kumba kwake muDecatur, Georgia.
Awards uye Accolades
1986 - Anonzi Ndiani Ndiyani MuAmerica Cooking naChishi's Magazine
1990 - Lifetime Achievement Award IACP (International Assoc yeCulinary Professionals)
1995 - James Beard Living Legend Award (Yokutanga yavo yakadai.)
1999 - Zita Guru Grande Dame neRes Dames d'Escoffier, sangano renyika dzakawanda revakadzi vanoita zvekudya.
1999 - Lifetime Achievement Award kubva kuSouth Foodways Alliance (SFA) (Yokutanga yakadaro.)
2002 - Barbara Tropp Mubayiro weMutungamiri (WCR - Vakadzi Chefs & Restaurateurs)
2003 - Yakapinza muCuisineAid Cookbook Hall of Fame (James Beard)
2004 - Chipo Chokumaodzanyemba Kubika yakasarudzwa muJames Beard Award uye IACP Award
Cookbooks
Edna Lewis Cookbook (Ecco 1989) (Kunze MuPurisa)
Kunakidzwa kweNyika Kubika (Knopf 1976)
Mukutsvaga Kwevhiri (Knopf 1988)
Chipo cheSouth Cooking (neScott Peacock) (Nhasi 2003)