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Chef Elizabeth Heiskell

Cookbook Author to Sell and Autograph New Book “Somebody Stole the Cornbread from my Stuffing” during 14th Annual National Cornbread Festival

Elizabeth Heiskell was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, an agricultural area bordered by the Mississippi River where food and fun go hand in hand.  The Delta is renowned for its cotton crops, its haunting landscape and its legendary parties where Deltans traverse the flat empty distances from plantation to plantation to have a big time.

Elizabeth’s new cookbook, “Somebody Stole the Cornbread from my Stuffing” will be released in the fall of 2010. However, the book will be sold at the Lodge Booth on 2nd Avenue of South Pittsburg, TN during the 14th Annual National Cornbread Festival, April 24-25. Elizabeth, who will be a judge of the National Cornbread Cook-off, will be autographing copies sold throughout the festival.

With her passion for food, fun and adventure, Elizabeth started her culinary journey with courses at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY.  Returning to her roots, she landed in Memphis, Tennessee where she put her impressive culinary skills to work.  After serving on the opening team for the nationally acclaimed Automatic Slims restaurant under the tutelage of its owner, Karen Carrier, she became catering coordinator for Carrier’s catering company, Another Roadside Attraction.  Chef Heiskell has prepared food for such notables as the Duchess of York, Vice President Al Gore, and a host of Mississippi governors.  She now maintains an active catering company of her own based in her hometown of Cleveland, Mississippi where she lives with her husband Luke, a cotton farmer, and their three daughters. Elizabeth keeps up a hectic schedule of carpooling, catering and teaching cooking classes.
 
As Lead Culinary Instructor at the Viking Cooking School in nearby Greenwood, world headquarters of the Viking Range Corporation, she represents Viking through a multitude of classes, television and public appearances, and at various events adding fun and vitality to every class she teaches.