“Food makes a memory and it makes a connection,” says Angie Burns, who said she started “really” cooking about 10

Geraldine Clark of Bruce cooks every Sunday for “the whole bunch.”

Wade Shoemake’s  interest in cooking started when he was watching his dad, Gary, fry bacon in a black skillet.

BBQ is Brandy Baker’s favorite, and she learned to make it from her dad. His has a sweet taste that

Bridgett Brown Fulton loves to cook when she has the “hankering” and the time, and “when I cook, I cook.”

Betty and Charles Hill married when she was 17 and she had never cooked before then, except in Rose Chandler’s

Sausage balls, corn dip and Tink Massey’s chocolate chip pound cake are three things Kimberly Watkins Ruth of Calhoun City

“I do as much as I can in the crockpot,”  said Penny Nichols of Calhoun City. She put a new

“A lot of times I just throw stuff together,” Carol Baker said, but Mark does it, too. Then they recalled

“Cook for everybody else like you cook for yourself,” is something Reena Evans’ grandmother, Ida Armstrong, and mother, Minnie Evans,