The book reflects her many years spent living on military bases around the world, including Germany, South Korea and San Antonio, both as an Army brat and a member of the Air Force.ĭuring Anderson’s service, she worked as a radio journalist, and she continued in radio after she left the military, working as a DJ at stations across the country, including New York’s HOT 97. The New Orleans native didn’t hold back any of her family favorites, which is why in a book of 125 recipes, you’ll find two macaroni and cheese dishes and 10 recipes for wings, one of her favorite foods. “If I never get another cookbook, I want it to be representative of me,” she says.
The tale of the red plate is just one of many touching stories that Anderson shares in her first cookbook, which she says is a lifetime in the making. “That’s when I realized that my parents were still rewarding each other with red-plate meals … so I bought my own and now continue the tradition anytime I feel I need a priceless reward and great memories of past red-plate meals,” she writes. The red plate was better than cookies or ice cream or even a trip to ShowBiz Pizza, Anderson writes in the introduction of her new cookbook “ Sunny’s Kitchen: Easy Food for Real Life” (Clarkson Potter, $22.50).Īnd when she finally earned her own nationally televised cooking show in 2008, she asked her mom if she could use her family’s venerated red plate on the set. When Food Network host Sunny Anderson was a kid, any time she or her brother got a good grade on a test or accomplished some other achievement, they got to eat off their family’s one red plate at dinner.
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