"Damaris truly puts the South In Your Mouth and let me tell ya, you’re gonna dig it.” -Guy Fieri
Join us for a presentation and signing with "Food Network Star" winning chef Damaris Phillips featuring her fun new book, SOUTHERN GIRL MEETS VEGETARIAN BOY.
Damaris Phillips is a southern chef in love with an ethical vegetarian. In Phillips's household, greens were made with pork, and it wasn’t Sunday without fried chicken. So she had to transform the way she cooks. In Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy, Phillips shares 100 recipes that embody the modern Southern kitchen: food that retains all its historic comfort and flavor, but can now be enjoyed by vegetarians and meat-lovers alike.
The book features Phillips’s most cherished entrees from her childhood made both with and without meat: Chicken Fried Steak becomes Chicken Fried Seitan Steak. Loaded Potato and Bacon Soup is now Loaded Potato and Facon Soup. She gives down-home side dishes a makeover by removing meat, adding international spices, and updating cooking techniques, and offers soul-satisfying, irresistible desserts that triumph over the meat-eater-versus-vegetarian divide, every time. Phillips found a way to make Southern food that everyone can enjoy, wherever they are on their culinary journey.
Damaris Phillips is a chef, the host of Southern at Heart, and co-host of new shows Southern & Hungry and The Bobby and Damaris Show on the Food Network. She is also the 2013 winner of Food Network Star, where she impressed judges with her fresh take on Southern cuisine, and won over the audience with her impeccable charm. Phillips appears on several other shows as either competitor or judge: Guy's Grocery Games, Cooks vs. Cons, Bakers vs. Fakers, Celebrity Food Fight, and others. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
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In Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy, chef and Southern at Heart host Damaris Phillips shares 100 recipes that embody the modern Southern kitchen: food that retains all its historic comfort and flavor but can now be enjoyed by vegetarians and meat-lovers alike.
“Truly puts the South in your mouth, and let me tell ya, you’re gonna dig it.” ̵