It's All Delicious - Hits the big time in the lowcountry
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 7:06AM
Photo by Sarah Welliver - The Island Packet
Culinary Keepsakes: Island food blogger promises her readers -- It's All Delicious
By Justin Paprocki - The Island Packet
Sally Kerr-Dineen's house has a walk-in closet filled with cans and boxes of food. She has about 300 cookbooks. Kitchen drawers are filled with utensils. What would prompt such a cooking obsession?
"It's a sickness," she says with a sly grin. "Wait -- a passion. That's better. It's a passion."
Passion? Sickness? Judge for yourself on her blog, It's All Delicious, at www.itsalldelicious.com. Not only will Kerr-Dineen cook a meal for her family each night, she'll write about it the next day.
The blog is a collection of her culinary exploits. It involves arguments over jalapeños, the good side of Brussels sprouts and the self-proclaimed best chocolate chip cookie ever in the entire world.
She tests herself by preparing the cover recipes from a cooking magazine she has on hand. The judges are her mother, teenage son and daughter, and their friends.
"At the very least," she said, "it provides a lot of entertainment here."
Kerr-Dineen has been cooking since childhood in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. At age 5, she was making apple pies with her grandma. Wednesday was baking day with her great-grandmother. Holidays were always cooking spectaculars.
Her interest piqued once she moved across the pond with her British husband. She had a cooking nervous breakdown, as she puts it. Culture shock hit her in the kitchen. The measurements were in metric. Veggies had weird names -- aubergines (eggplant), courgettes (zucchini). Cuts of beef had different names, and the oven had odd settings (What the heck is gas mark 5?).
But after any breakdown comes a chance to rebuild. She discovered the joys of English cooking, minus some of the heavier gravies, and was following the London culinary scene, which had unleashed such stars as Delia Smith and Gordon Ramsay.
Divorce brought her back to the States with her two children after 14 years overseas. They settled in Palmetto Dunes, and Kerr-Dineen started writing. She chronicled her newly found single life in Pink magazine, which led to a cooking column. Her passion started to merge into a profession….you can read the rest of the article at The Island Packet Lowcountry Life
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