Lewis Sheridan Hughes
Lewis Sheridan Hughes is a chef, activist, and community organizer whose work blends food, history, and justice. He is the great great great grandson of Wilson Bruce Evans and Sarah Jane Leary Evans, abolitionists who defied the Fugitive Slave Act, and the namesake of Lewis Sheridan Leary, who gave his life with John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Their courage grounds his vision of food as both education and nourishment.
A culinary graduate with more than two decades of experience, Hughes is the chef owner of Hughes Hill Catering in Beacon, New York. His cooking is rooted in the Southern and Midwestern foodways of his ancestors and shaped by respect for terroir, the land and climate that define ingredients, and the shared techniques that connect cultures.
He leads the Beacon’s Backyard Free Breakfast Program and serves on the boards of John Brown Lives! and the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society, continuing his family’s legacy through food and community.
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