| June 26, 2009 |
Renee Hall of Henry County doesn’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen, but when she or her husband Joe are planning to cook, chances are pork will be on the menu. |
| May 22, 2009 |
From her young days in her mother’s kitchen to the lunches she now prepares for her sons and grandson who work on the farm, Ella Faire has spent much of her farm life in the kitchen |
| April 29, 2009 |
Donna Anders of Tuscaloosa County keeps a “new-recipes-to-try” file in her kitchen, letting her family decide which is a keeper. |
| March 16, 2009 |
When the holidays are over, some people may find themselves missing the special times with family that the season brings. But, for Carol Knight of Randolph County, a family meal is never far away. |
| March 16, 2009 |
As soft as clouds and as golden as sunshine, Wilene Sherer’s homemade bread is a fairytale in food. And the lesson it teaches is that some things just aren’t for sale. |
| March 16, 2009 |
Marcia Plaster may not have been born on an Alabama farm, but she certainly has the heart of one who’s never strayed far from the fields. |
| January 7, 2009 |
Dawn East says she’s been very fortunate to have two loving families shape her life. |
| November 20, 2008 |
Patsy Fincher of Mobile County says she can’t imagine how she and her husband John had time for anything before they retired. |
| October 1, 2008 |
As a working mother of two, Butler County native Charlene Powell says her family still finds time for a sit-down dinner most nights. |
| September 5, 2008 |
Minutes after hearing cookbook author Leslie Bailey declare that “there are no new recipes,” Edwina Dykes of Barbour County proved her right by using a borrowed recipe that she personalized into a hearty soup to take first place in the Heritage Cooking Contest in Montgomery on Thursday, Sept. 4. |
| August 4, 2008 |
When Kelly Kyser graduated high school, she said the last thing she wanted to do was live in Greensboro and marry a catfish farmer. But after graduating college and starting her career, that’s exactly what she did. |
| July 9, 2008 |
It’s hard to tell if Amy Belcher of Montgomery County is more proud of her family’s farming heritage or her family’s tradition of making wonderful food. |
| July 9, 2008 |
Ella Caraway summarizes her move from a small town in Pennsylvania to her husband’s
family farm in Barbour County in two words: very different. |
| April 30, 2008 |
Originally from Elmore County, Donna says she always cooked with her mother but also learned about cooking through her involvement in 4-H. |
| March 27, 2008 |
Sherri Plant of Madison County says that some of her fondest childhood memories are of long days spent on her uncle’s dairy farm in Arkansas. |
| February 20, 2008 |
Donna Sanders of Coffee County says most of the 19 years she stayed home to care for her children was spent in the kitchen. |
| January 29, 2008 |
A former home economics teacher, Debbie Owens of Greene County says she never did much cooking as a little girl, but that all changed in junior high school. |
| December 31, 2007 |
Delle Bean of Calhoun County says she’s not one to just clip a recipe and give it a try.
“I think every recipe I have is one I tasted first and then asked for the recipe from friends or family,” |
| December 6, 2007 |
Some Christmas memories are hard to beat. Memories like the search for the family’s perfect Christmas tree, leaving treats for Santa or finally getting your chance to place the star atop the tree. Then, there are memories like the ones awaiting here in these holiday recipes for you and your family along with the prayers for a blessed Christmas from the staff of the Alabama Farmers Federation. |
| October 29, 2007 |
Dora Rider’s third trip to the Alabama Farmers Federation’s Heritage Cooking Contest was a charm — and a tasty one — as the Monroe County mother captured first place in the statewide contest on Sept. 6 with her Chili Cornbread Salad. |
