I’d Love To Meet You On Novemember 17th!
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Come meet me November 17th when I’ll be speaking as part of the Livingston Concert Lecture Series at historic Athens State University in Athens, Alabama. I will be speaking and then taking time afterward to meet all of the good folks who come to listen. I’d dearly love a chance to meet more members of my wonderful Southern Plate Family!
Tuesday November 17 at 7:00 PM
McCandless Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
Below is the original press release. Can y’all believe someone actually issued a press release about ME?
Come on now, laugh with me, this is fun!
For immediate release
November 2, 2009
Athens State to host lecture by Christy Jordan of Southerplate.com
Athens, ALA. – Southern cuisine afficienado and creator of Southernplate.com, Christy Jordan, will speak at Athens State on Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m. in McCandless Hall on the Athens State campus. The event is offered free to the public and no reservations are required.
“We as Southerners relate our experiences to what was served, what was prepared,” says Jordan. “Celebrations center around dishes steeped in tradition and memories of Great Granny preparing her special rolls or pie.”
Jordan spent her childhood hearing stories from her great grandmother about a lifetime of sharecropping and her childhood filled with memories of wonderful food. These stories, born from the tradition of great Southern cooks, have been firmly embedded in the family root system generations earlier when they were among the first to settle the Tennessee Valley.
Now, the Home Economics degreed busy mom and wife works from home with a laptop on the kitchen counter and her iPhone to her ear as she tries to build a business which I had originally begun purely as a hobby.
“My days are spent responding to hundreds of emails,” explains Jordan. “I take photographs of food, write columns for newspapers and magazines, manage a website, film cooking segments for television spots, and try to wrangle in time to talk on the phone to food industry execs.”
Jordan’s website, Southern Plate.com, is a rapidly growing site. During the first year alone SouthernPlate.com generated over 18 million page views. The site now averages over 6 million page views per month and has just begun its second year.
For more information about the event, or about the Livingston Concert Lecture Series at Athens State University, please call 256-233-8126.
Yay! That’s wonderful. I wish I could come see you. Have a great time! 🙂
I’ll be there! 🙂
WOW, how amazing is that!!!! I’m excited about getting to see your cooking segment live while I’m visiting Mama and family in Fayetteville over Thanksgiving holiday.
Wonderful. I can understand why the sent out a press release. They must enjoy reading your blog, trying out your wonderful recipes and watching the great videos. Congratulations.
How exciting! Congratulations Christy! Sure do wish I could be there, but please know that I (as well as all the other members of your SP family that can’t be there) will be cheering you on in spirit!!
Bountiful Blessings!
WOW!! Congrats!
It is so cool thinking all of this has generated from this lil ol’ web site. =) I wish I lived there so I could go, but I live in WA state. Good luck! It would be so neat if each person that goes, that also reads this site, would cook their favorite recipe from here. Turn the whole thing into a southern hospitality potluck. Oh yum I’m drooling a little just thinking about it.
Hugs~
saundra
Wow! What an amazing opportunity. Congratulations Christy. You will be wonderful and I wish I could see you in person. But alas, I have to remain here in the WET northeast state of Washington. Best wishes to you.
I meant northwest but I am in the northeast part of the state.
How funny is that! I read your comment right after posting mine…and find out we are both in WA. Too funny! I live in Puyallup.