“You’ll have to learn to cook now,” Barbara Swanson’s mother, Vernice Tutor, told her when she married at age 16.

It’s 50-50 between cooking breakfast or grilling for Hank Thompson of Bruce. He likes to fix a good, homemade breakfast

When Sara Quillen of Bruce “lived in the great white north (Montreal, Canada)” she would take her mother, Nellie Davis’,

“We enjoy eating around our house,” said Don Hardin of New Liberty community, who also commented that he likes a

Marianne Caradine of Vardaman almost always enters the annual Sweet Potato Cooking Contest. She keeps her eyes open year around

When Phyllis Stewart’s children, Chad and Sandi, were little, and she made fried apple pies, “they would eat them as

“I have to like sweet potatoes because my husband, Danny, is a sweet potato farmer!” says Mary Clark of Vardaman,

Pat Melton of Bruce has a passion for canning like her mother, the late Ruby Hill. She cans dill pickles

Dot Hardin’s peanut butter cookie recipe goes back to her school days, 1954-57. “It is my favorite cookie recipe. It

Lorna Reifers of Vardaman doesn’t have a secret to making creamed potatoes, but that’s what all the nieces and nephews