“I found myself going back home to this newly discovered purpose of mine, which is cooking,” Brown explains. At its foundation, the title of Brown’s cookbook is an ode to the journey she’s taken to get where she is today. Getting more involved recipes like Pecan Pie Cheesecake (page 107) to fit perfectly and making sure each and every recipe was consistent and cohesive was a feat, but a rewarding one. “The most challenging part for me was the edit,” notes Brown. It was condensing the recipes and making careful revisions that proved more difficult. Having plenty of recipes to choose from was one of the easier tasks in getting the book finished, Brown notes. Brown includes traditional recipes, as well as new ones she’s developed with her cultural heritage in mind. As an adult, she’s held tightly onto family recipes passed down to her from her great-grandparents, grandmother, mom, and her Aunt TC. Even though Brown hasn’t always worked in the food industry professionally (she was previously a social worker in New Jersey, prior to 2015), she grew up in the kitchen and knows her way around it well. “There needs to be a place where my greatest hits exist,” says Brown. But she always felt that they should be in a more central place too. For a long time, Brown would simply develop her own recipes and share them with her fans via Instagram posts only. “For so many years, people always asked, ‘When are you gonna write a cookbook?’ or ‘Where can I find your recipes?’” Brown explains. Although her show has been on air for a few years now, Brown’s cookbook was something that’s been in the making even longer. The show’s seventh season premiered in the summer of 2022. In just about every episode of her successful Food Network show, Delicious Miss Brown - which first premiered in 2019 - Brown, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, shines a light on the Gullah recipes she grew up learning and perfecting. To this day, many Gullah-Geechee descendants in that region have preserved much of their culture, including language, art, and food. The Gullah-Geechee people are known today as the descendants of West and Central Africans who were enslaved and brought specifically to the coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida, known as The Sea Islands. In addition to the wide-ranging cuisines of soul food and Louisiana Creole fare, Gullah-Geechee food carves out its own unique path.
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