Toni Tipton-Martin and Morgan Bolling of America’s Test Kitchen’s Cook’s Country will make a stop at the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg to support their new cookbook, “When Southern Women Cook.”
Drawing initial inspiration from America’s Test Kitchen reader polls and Bolling’s passion for telling women’s stories, the duo spent two years working with over 70 contributors and compiling more than 300 recipes for the cookbook.
“This book’s working to tell a broad story of what Southern cooking was and how it’s continued to evolve,” Bolling said. “We are trying to represent a more global view of what the South is and how it’s evolved over the years. We also include the ‘brown in the South’ movement and these different Indian chefs who host dinners in the South. We do try to tell stories of people. There are so many women who have had an impact on Southern food and helped shape it and we wanted to celebrate that in the pages of this book.”
Bolling and Tipton-Martin combed through the America’s Test Kitchen Archives and worked with a historical consultant to compile their recipes.
“We had something like 650 recipes by that time and then we had to start eliminating, so we tried to focus on ones that had a story we could tell that would have some version of a womanish angle or felt iconic for Southern food,” Bolling said. “We had to eliminate to hit a balance (in locations). We had so much more we wanted to include.”
Bolling’s and Tipton-Martin’s Nov. 14 appearance from 6 to 7 p.m. is hosted by Hub City Bookshop. Admission is $40 per person and includes a copy of “When Southern Women Cook.” For more information, visit hubcity.org.
