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SEEN - HEARD - READ

Watch me on these television morning shows every second Tuesday of the month on WBRC Fox6 Good Day Alabama at 8:45 am and every first Tuesday of the month on ABC 33/40 Talk of Alabama from 9:00 am - 10:00 am.

Listen to my interview on This Unmillennial Life podcast with Regan Miller Jones, RD on Shortcut Holiday Cooking.

Listen to my interview on BFF With The Chef podcast with Nicole Schwegman on Southern shortcut cooking and how/why I started my blog.

I wrote the Matter of Taste food articles and developed the recipes for Christian Woman magazine for nine years.

See more at the bottom of this page.

Food Styling & Recipe Development

I developed all the recipes, prepared, and styled the food for my cookbook, Magic Cakes. Check out my Cookbook page on the home page or click here to order your copy.

Yogurt Mountain

Yogurt Mountain has been a client for many years. You can find my food styling on their website, inside on the walls and outside on window campaigns.

Although I've worked on hundreds of cookbooks over the past 28 years, Southern Living Little Jars, Big Flavors, published by Oxmoor House, is one of my favorite books to work on. I was the food stylist and developed several of the recipes including the pickled jalapenos front and center on the cover. It took me back to the days of my youth when we canned everything we grew in our garden and entered only the best jars in the Sharp County Fair.

Pictured below, I was one of two food stylists to work on the Alabama Department of Tourism's "Year of Food" project with Lucky & Co. advertising agency and Becky Luigart-Stayner, photographer. The project featured food from popular Alabama restaurants on their website as well as 100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama. The project was turned into an Art of Alabama travel exhibit that started in New York. Here's a few pics. See if you can recognize the restaurant and the dish!

I've also styled food for Coastal Living and Christian Woman magazine.

Recipe Development and Testing

I've developed hundreds of recipes for brands such as Oxmoor House cookbooks: Southern Living, Cooking Light, and Weight Watchers Annual Recipes; magazines such as Christian Woman and Coastal Living; other publications include Pillsbury and Betty Crocker. Many of my recipes have been featured on the covers of these publications.

Most of my test kitchen career was spent in the Southern Progress test kitchens (Oxmoor House and Cooking Light). Years ago, all the kitchens (Southern Living, Oxmoor House, and Cooking Light) were combined along with publications from New York such as Real Simple, People, Health, Food and Wine from Time Inc. Meredith recently purchased Time Inc. I have been fortunate to spend many months testing and developing recipes for them in this state of the art venue as a free lancer.

Let's work together!

Email me at [email protected] to see how I can help your business with my Southern shortcut recipe development, food styling, sponsored posts, editorial articles, and brand and commodity ambassador.