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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 published author, fourth-generation Southern cook, and avid traveler living near Augusta, Georgia. She is a syndicated Associated Press writer who has been featured on Food Drink Life digital magazine and Southern Holiday Life print magazine. Lucy also publishes on Newsbreak and MSN Start. Southern Food and Fun recipes can also be found on Punchfork.

Lucy started helping in the kitchen more than 50 years ago when she was just a little girl, standing in a chair next to her mother and grandmother. She quickly developed a passion for the art of cooking and began creating recipes, changing existing recipes, and perfecting classic Southern dishes.

As a lover of all things culinary, Lucy has immersed herself in studying and learning expert cooking techniques, recipe creation, shortcuts for quick recipes, and lots of cooking how-to’s so that she can bring the best information to readers of Southern Food and Fun.

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As the former communications director for a non-profit (Georgia Pharmacy Association), Lucy has published hundreds of articles in widely circulated magazines and newsletters. With a Master of Arts in Professional Writing (Kennesaw State University) and more than twenty years of experience writing and editing professionally, she’s blending a love of writing with a passion for cooking, entertaining, and traveling into a breathing representation of all—Southern Food & Fun.

“I learned to cook standing in a chair at my grandmother’s and mother’s kitchen counter, and over the last twenty-five 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.“