{"id":2345310,"date":"2026-03-25T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2345310"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:46:40","slug":"jamestown-settlement-to-present-finding-edna-lewis-emmy-award-winning-pbs-documentary-on-march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jamestown-settlement-to-present-finding-edna-lewis-emmy-award-winning-pbs-documentary-on-march-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown Settlement to Present \u2018Finding Edna Lewis\u2019, Emmy Award-Winning PBS Documentary, on March 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finding Edna Lewis, a PBS Emmy Award winning documentary will be shown at Jamestown Settlement. (JYF Museums)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

JAMESTOWN\u2014 Jamestown Settlement will present \u201cFinding Edna Lewis,\u201d an Emmy\u00a0award-winning PBS documentary, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, followed by a discussion with producer Deb Freeman about the famed chef\u2019s legacy that delves into race, culture and food in Virginia and across the South.<\/p>\n

From Freetown, Virginia, to New York City, Edna Lewis (1916-2006) carved a remarkable path as a pioneering African American chef, author and champion of Southern cuisine with influential cookbooks such as \u201cThe Taste of Country Cooking\u201d (1976). Despite a life that included fame and acclaim, Lewis is not a household name.<\/p>\n

In the documentary, writer and culinary historian Deb Freeman travels to the places where Lewis made her mark introducing many Americans to seasonal, Southern cooking and the cooking \u2013 the type of cooking in the Black community of rural Virginia that raised her. Following the film, Freeman will host a discussion delving into the intersections of race, culture, and food \u2013 especially in Virginia and across the South.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for college students with a valid ID. Tickets can be purchased online at jyfmuseums.org\/finding-edna<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source wydaily.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding Edna Lewis, a PBS Emmy Award winning documentary will be shown at Jamestown Settlement. (JYF Museums) JAMESTOWN\u2014 Jamestown Settlement will present \u201cFinding Edna Lewis,\u201d an Emmy\u00a0award-winning PBS documentary, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, followed by a discussion with producer Deb Freeman about the famed chef\u2019s legacy that delves into race, culture and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2345311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jamestown-Settlement-to-Present-\u2018Finding-Edna-Lewis-Emmy-Award-Winning-PBS.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345312,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345310\/revisions\/2345312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}