Lucy Brewer

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Lucy Brewer is a syndicated Associated Press writer, fourth-generation Southern cook, and avid traveler living near Augusta, Georgia. She is the author of the cookbook 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 experience in recipe development and cooking spans more than four decades.

Education

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Features

Lucy’s writing has been featured in Food Drink Life digital magazine and Southern Holiday Life print magazine, as well as NewsBreak and MSN Start. You can also find her on MuckRack and LinkedIn.

➡️📰 FUN FACT: Lucy was interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, Peach Rivalry Becomes War Between the Tastes by Kim Severson.

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 pharmacy magazines and newsletters.

Now, she blends her love of storytelling with her passion for cooking, entertaining, and traveling — bringing it all together in Southern Food and Fun.

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Granny in the kitchen, age 90!
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Gathered around my great-grandmother’s table.

Learning in the kitchen

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 recipes, and learning how to make classic Southern dishes.

As a mother of three and grandmother of six, Lucy has used the tools her grandmother and mother taught her to feed many young people over the years. She knows what it takes to get tasty food on the table quickly.

“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.“

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Just for fun

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.

A few things to know about Lucy…
  1. She was a single mom of two little boys for several years. 💙 In 1999, she remarried and gained a 9-year-old daughter, whose mom is now one of Lucy’s dearest friends.
  2. She abhors bleu cheese and beets. You are unlikely to find recipes that include either of those ingredients on this website.
  3. She loves reading, especially murder mysteries and cookbooks. Sometimes those can be one and the same.
  4. She loves to sing and dance, but can’t carry a tune and has no rhythm.
  5. She’s fiercely competitive and wants to win at everything every time.
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Lucy’s Top Ten Favorite Recipes

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