Nobody does hospitality and food like Southerners.
We’re born and bred to entertain, from the simplest cottage to the grandest mansion.
It’s just part of our nature to offer sustenance, comfort, and laughter to our family, friends, and strangers — who quickly become friends.
In a world that moves at a wicked pace,
take a breath…
*Pull up a chair and sit a spell.
Southern Food and Fun focuses on original, classic Southern recipes passed down for generations. We want to preserve the special traditions and unique flavors of the South.
We also feature quick and easy recipes to help you get dinner on the table when your family is running in a million different directions.
Entertainment is near and dear to our hearts. Southerners are renowned for hosting gatherings, and we’d love to help you plan a dinner party, game day party, bridal shower, or pick something to take to a church potluck.
Recipes featured on this website have been tested at least 3 times for accuracy.
About Lucy
Lucy Brewer is a syndicated Associated Press writer, fourth-generation Southern cook, and avid traveler living near Augusta, Georgia. She is the cookbook author of Favorite Game Day and Party Recipes.
A lifelong student of all things culinary and food, Lucy has studied Southern cooking under the expert tutelage of several grandmothers, cookbook authors, and online classes. Her extensive recipe development and cooking experience covers more than four decades.
Lucy has been featured in Food Drink Life digital magazine and Southern Holiday Life print magazine and publishes on NewsBreak and MSN Start. You can also find her on MuckRack and LinkedIn.
Her work has also appeared in a variety of digital and print publications, including the Seattle Times, The Facts, New Orleans City Business, Delaware State News, The Washington Times, San Mateo Daily Journal, Highlands News-Sun, Salem News, The Greeneville Sun, Odessa American, The Georgia Pharmacy Journal, America’s Pharmacist, and more. You can also find Southern Food and Fun recipes on Punchfork.
As the former communications director for the Georgia Pharmacy Association, Lucy has published hundreds of articles in widely circulated magazines and newsletters. She holds a Master of Arts in Professional Writing (Kennesaw State University) and has more than thirty years of experience in professional writing and editing.
Now, she blends her love of storytelling with her passion for cooking, entertaining, and traveling — bringing it all together in Southern Food and Fun.
Lucy started helping in the kitchen when she was just a little girl, standing in a chair next to her grandmother and great-grandmother (who taught her to make Tea Cakes.) She quickly developed a passion for cooking and began creating recipes, changing existing recipes, and perfecting classic Southern dishes.
“I learned to cook standing in a chair at my grandmother’s and mother’s kitchen counter, and over the last thirty-five plus years, have studied the art and practiced on my family and friends. I still call my Mama to ask how to make a family recipe, and there are many things that I’ll probably never get exactly right.
Many of the foods they cooked, and consequently many of the foods I cook,
don’t have written instructions.They live in our heads, and we simply know what to add by sight, touch, or taste. A lifelong Georgia girl, I grew up on a farm just outside the small town of Oglethorpe, right in the heart of Middle Georgia pine country.
We had cows, pigs, chickens, goats, sometimes horses, lots of hound dogs, and barn cats.
My grandmother and my mother canned and froze everything they possibly could so we could eat on it all year, and we raised and ate our own cows, pigs, and chickens.
We ate local and sustainable free-range food without realizing it would someday be trendy.
It was just how we lived.“
Lucy lives in a suburb of Augusta, Georgia, with her husband, David, and mini-goldendoodle, Henry. Their three adult children, three in-law adult children, and six grandchildren all live in Georgia.
Features:
- The New York Times, Peach Rivalry Becomes War Between the Tastes by Kim Severson
- FoodNetwork Dish
- Today Show Food Club
- Southern Holiday Life Magazine
To work with Southern Food & Fun, please visit this Collaborate page and then send us an email.