I love cookbooks, cooking, talking about food, and, most of all, sitting down to a meal with others. (Eating alone just isn’t the same.) To wrap all of these interests into one, I started a cookbook club and accompanying blog called Dowdy Corners Cookbook Club in 2010. In the fall of 2013 my then boyfriend (now husband), Mike, and I moved from Randolph, Vermont, to Richmond, Virginia (and from area code 802 to 804*). I haven’t resurrected the “club” part of DCCC in my new Southern setting, but I still write the occasional blog posting, most often inspired by the diverse foods of the Upper South, covering ground from the Tidewater to the Piedmont and further west to Appalachia.

*I’d be happy to link to an 804-themed song. If one exists, send me email with a link.