The Southern Fork

I learned to cook from the women in my family for sure, but I also learned to cook from Nathalie Dupree. Probably starting around early middle school age, I would post up by the TV on Saturday afternoons to catch many of the cooking shows on PBS, and Nathalie not only showed me how to make a coconut cake, she...

I write and work from home and most of the time, I work in quiet, which isn’t really quiet. Right now, it’s the muted sounds of birds through the windows, traffic on my street, my dog Petunia, and the late summer buzzing of cicadas. When Chris Wilkins of Root Baking Co. stopped by my house recently to...