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Eartha Dunston is an award-winning author and enthusiastic self-taught, Southern cook; who drew on her cultural heritage to birth delicious recipes. Here she will share snippets of her kitchen wisdom and culinary skills everyone can use to satiate their pallets when southern cuisine calls!
Eartha S. Dunston is an award-winning author and quintessential southern cook, known for creating simple cuisine often rooted deep in history with rich stories behind her dishes. She recalls, for example, standing, at the age of three, in a chair at the stove helping her father stir up a traditional southern breakfast. Her maternal grandparents were both professional cooks in
Mobile, Alabama. Eartha grew up in kitchens where gumbo was made from fresh-caught Gulf seafood; and where homemade barbecue sauce rivaled the pit-smoked meat it was created for.
She has fond memories of picking fresh peaches, blackberries, and pecans for her mother to make pies. There are also vivid memories of playing on land with the backdrop of endless rows of a vegetable garden she helped plant. These are the memories, experiences and “planted seeds” that brought back to life years of buried skills she now uses to feed and entertain her family
and friends.
With a passion for everything arts and culture, Eartha was named the 2016 Black Pearls Magazine Literary Excellence Author of the Year award recipient for her debut Children’s book, The Hair Adventures of Princess Lindsey Sidney. She is also a contributing author to Writing our Lives: A Southern Storytellers Anthology, where she shares a snippet of her forthcoming memoir, Chasing Dreams in the Midst of the Storm. Eartha also serves as an Advisory Board member on the Celebrate! Maya Project, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting literacy, creativity, and social consciousness of the life and work of literary icon, Dr. Maya Angelou.
Eartha holds a bachelor’s degree from Alabama State University and a master’s from Virginia Commonwealth University. She resides in the Washington, DC, area.
