How Southern Living Helped Fannie Flagg Make Her Cookbook

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In this interview with Fannie Flagg, she discusses how Southern Living helped to test the recipes in her original cookbook ‘The Whistlestop Cafe Cookbook’.

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00:00I'm curious in terms of Southern Living, was that something that you had around the house

00:04growing up? Always. Well, because, you know, the big thing was in Birmingham, which we were all

00:09so thrilled about. And I think probably my grandparents had progressive farmer when I

00:15wrote a cookbook, which was hilarious because I'm a terrible cook, called the Whistle Stop Cafe

00:19Cookbook. Southern Living went in and tested all the recipes so I didn't kill people.

00:26So they helped me write that book. Wait, we did that? Really?

00:30I said, I've got to have my pals test it. So in your kitchens, they tested all the recipes to make

00:35sure that I didn't get anything wrong. So I've had a long, long relationship with Southern Living.

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