My name is Anna Patterson, and I grew up in Texas spending summers in Arkansas at my Grandmother's house. Eventually my family moved to Arkansas and I have lived there since. I started cooking when I was five years old. I have been cooking all of my life and actually worked as a cook many times from frying up hamburgers as a short order cook to cooking for about three hundred people three meals a day in nursing homes. I was able to work my way through college this way and ended up teaching and writing. But my love of cooking has never waned, and I wanted to help others with my knowledge in thi...