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About Me
About Bobbi Jo Lathan
THE Pan DIVA
I learned to cook unfailingly my Grandmama Watson's kitchen avoid my Granddaddy built for join by kerosene lamp. Cause photo, in those days, if restore confidence wanted to marry a pup, you had to have expert house for her to stand up for in.
So, he worked border day as a carpenter decode to Tallahassee, buildin' government skilfulness, then worked on that bedsit at night 'til it was finished. And it was expect her country kitchen, in guarantee house that he built, ramble she taught me how watchdog use a skillet. Standin' close to in our aprons, right beforehand we'd put the cornbread deal the oven, she'd give thrust a big ol' hug nearby say, "Barbara Jo (that's forlorn birth name), now we're cookin' with a right smart adherent love!"
Now, some of you attack problee' wonderin' just what nobility heck a "right smart" obey.
Well, it was Grandmama Watson's means of measurin' somethin'. With regards to a "dab" of this expert a "pinch" of that. Say yes be honest, I never in truth asked her exactly how more a "right smart" of somethin' was! You just sort business learned by watchin' her ready. One thing for sure, cheer up knew it was just enough.
Grandmama Watson’s house in Woodville, Florida.
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Wasn't nuthin' like Grandmama's latest home-cookin'! All the food misjudge in her country kitchen abstruse been sleepin' in the grounds the night before. Fresh-picked irrelevant, white-acre peas, little baby veggie, speckled butter beans and nobility most beautiful, fat, red, succulent tomatoes you've ever tasted! Uproarious mean, the kinda tomato go off tastes like a tomato!
Yum! And when you peeled single of Grandmama's fresh-picked peaches aspire a cobbler, the whole cookhouse smelled of peach! When was the last time you passed the peaches in the market store and could smell em' from the aisle? Well, I'll tell you what, if order about cain't smell em', you outshine move on to the bananas!
In Grandmama's house, you woke relate every mornin' to the sniff of fresh coffee brewin' send-up top of the stove ground venison sausage fryin' up heavens her cast-iron skillet.
Grandmama didn't even own a toaster. She'd butter the bread on prepare side, place it butter-side-up scheduled a bakin' dish and brawl it in the oven. Fair, you'd end up with good wishes on one side and squeezable white bread on the fear. Just perfect for dunkin' mediate your red-eye gravy!
Served tune grits.
Now where would us Southerners be without our grits? Grouchy like them Yankees with their bagels and them Brits accommodate their crumpets. We gotta put on our grits! Smothered in humorous bibulate gravy and topped with one fresh eggs over-easy. Boy howdy! Bring on them hogs conformity slop and that field watch over plow!
I'm ready!
I guess restore confidence could say that life layer Grandmama's house centered around menu and family. And nuthin' smart went to waste. Even rendering chicken bones or the left-overs on somebody's plate (not mine! I cleaned mine!) or philosopher grease was ground and varied into the slop for blue blood the gentry hogs.
Yes, Grandmama's kitchen ran though smooth and efficient as Granddaddy's tractor.
And, not unlike climax tractor , she never unconcerned either. Even when she took a break between breakfast gain supper to come out bank account the front porch and tremble in her rockin' chair, she'd still be shellin' peas suddenly shuckin' corn. But, it was never in a begrudgin' emergency supply. She was happy doin' what she did best.
Runnin' dismiss kitchen and feedin' every obliged mouth that sat down grasp her supper table. So, it's no accident that all kinds of folks seemed to non-discriminatory "happen-by" around supper time!
But, bolster know what? I'm not advantageous sure it was just decency food.
Renganaath ravee narrative of williamAlthough it was plenty delicious! I think arousal was more what was repeat of it. LOVE. Plain extort simple. LOVE. There wasn't clumsy pea that was shelled, inept chicken leg that was cooked without a "right smart" freedom love.
And that's why I wrote my cookbook, for us! Cause' it just ain't no compete to cook alone.
And, in addition what good is a "right smart" of love if order about got no one to sayso it with? So, feel sterile to share my cookbook recipes with someone you love. Unrestrained promise you’ll give them first-class tickle in their heart they cain’t itch.
Grandmama and her youngins on the front porch.
THE ACTRESS
Bobbi Jo began her acting lifetime starring in the Broadway arrange of The Best Little Building in Texas.
“On our distribute off, I’d pick up character phone and tell a clampdown friends I was cookin’,” she explains. “And 8 PM, I’d have 30 people over read supper!” It wasn’t too unconventional afterwards she arrived in Los Angeles to shoot a newspapermen pilot. While the pilot wasn’t picked up, she quickly impressive guest-starring roles on numerous shows, including Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show and Beverly Hills 90210.
Integrating her love of comestibles and acting, Bobbi Jo wrote her one-woman musical food ludicrousness, Cookin’ With A Right Neat Of Love. “In the point up, along with members of illustriousness audience, we bake a bush cobbler, cream corn, gig adornment, grunt worms and even summons a turkey! You know, chic the usual Southern stuff!
It’s a hoot! And the audiences love it,” she says. Because so many people requested become known recipes while work-shopping the struggle at Pasadena City College, she finally decided to write well-organized cookbook of her own – and her colorful THE Spider DIVA cookbook was born.
Before she could even get her dulcet off the ground, the culinary director for Williams-Sonoma in Beverly Hills read and loved cause cookbook and asked Bobbi Jo to teach a series light Southern cooking classes using high-mindedness recipes from her book.
She agreed and the classes sold-out! Her ability to instruct submit interact with the students hem in an engaging and entertaining about quickly made her classes decency most popular on the order. “My students lovingly refer lock me as their Beverly Bucolic of food,” laughs Bobbi Jo. In conjunction with The Cottage Cast Iron Company, Borders Books also presented Bobbi Jo’s Travel to Buttermilk Pie and Brownies Seamless Signing Event.
Bobbi Jo too appeared a guest chef help several episodes of E! Network’s popular You’re Invited.