Martha Hall Foose
{{Short description|American chef and author}}
Martha Hall Foose is an American chef and author from Mississippi.{{cite web |title=Martha Hall Foose '86 |url=https://www.gosaints.org/alum-profiles?pk=182821 |access-date=29 May 2023 |website=St. Andrew Episcopal School}}
Early life and education
As a child, Foose attended school in Yazoo City, MS. She later attended Jackson Academy and then St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She went on to attend École Lenôtre in France before returning to her native Mississippi.{{cite web |title=Martha Hall Foose |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/81207/martha-hall-foose/ |website=Penguin Random House |access-date=29 May 2023}}
Career
Foose opened Bottletree Bakery in Oxford, Mississippi in the 1990s.{{Cite web |last=Gregory |first=Vanessa |date=April 2017 |title=The Other Martha |url=https://gardenandgun.com/feature/the-other-martha/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Garden & Gun |language=en-US}} After opening Bottletree Bakery, she and her husband moved to Minneapolis, where she worked for Pillsbury as a writer and editor of cookbooks.
In the late 2000s she moved back to Mississippi, where she opened Mockingbird Bakery in Greenwood. From 2011 until 2021 Foose worked as an executive chef at the Viking Cooking School.{{Cite web |last=Kraft |first=Chris |date=2020-04-10 |title=The Cookbook We Need Right Now |url=https://gardenandgun.com/articles/the-cookbook-we-need-right-now/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Garden & Gun |language=en-US}}
Foose was a food stylist for the movie The Help.
Personal life
Foose currently lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She previously lived at Pluto Plantation, her family farm near Greenwood and Tchula, Mississippi. The land previously belonged to her grandmother. She is married to Donald Bender, whom she met after opening Bottletree Bakery; the couple have one son.
Books
- Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook (2008), winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award
- A Southerly Course: Recipes, Stories from Close to Home (2011), nominee for the James Beard Book Award{{cite web |title=MARTHA HALL FOOSE |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/martha-hall-foose-0 |access-date=29 May 2023 |website=James Beard Foundation}}
- I Cook in Color: Bright Flavors From My Kitchen and Around the World (2020), coauthored with Atlanta-based chef Asha Gomez{{Cite news |last=Puckett |first=Susan |title=COOKBOOK REVIEW: A flavor spectrum without limits |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/food-and-recipes/cookbook-review-a-flavor-spectrum-without-limits/SHTWRUXRYNA25OXVAMX2GSAFWU/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |issn=1539-7459}}
- A Good Meal Is Hard To Find (2020), coauthored with Amy C. Evans{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Leslie |date=6 April 2020 |title=A Good Meal Is Hard To Find Is The Delicious Diversion You Need Right Now |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekelly/2020/04/06/a-good-meal-is-hard-to-find-is-the-delicious-diversion-you-need-right-now/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Forbes |language=en}}
References
External links
- {{official|http://marthafoose.com/}}
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Category:Chefs from Mississippi
Category:American cookbook writers
Category:St. Andrew's Episcopal School (Mississippi) alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)