South Carolina Hometown Cookbook (State Hometown Cookbook)
Sheila Simmons (Jackson, MS) is passionate about cooking and cookbooks. Her interest in regional recipes was originally born during 18 years with Quail Ridge Press in Brandon, MS. A member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Sheila serves as Publisher at Great American Publishers. She lives in Lena, Mississippi with her husband Roger and two sons, Ryan and Nicholas. In addition to publishing, cooking, and collecting recipes, she enjoys family, reading, antique cars and collecting books. Kent Whitaker (East Ridge, TN) has taken his down-home, Southern-style cooking to an art-form. He is the author of numerous titles in the State Hometown Cookbook Series plus two additional cookbooks, Smoke in the Mountains and Checkered Flag Cooking, as well as several non-cookbook titles. Kent has appeared on the Food Network and other network television stations and frequently hosts cooking classes throughout the South. He writes cooking columns for a number of newspapers and magazines, and is currently the spokesman for Alpo® Backyard Bistro dog food. Kent and his wife Ally live in East Tennessee with one son, Macee, a Golden Retriever named Moses and a Shitzu named Barney.