Peachy the Magazine June July 2014 | Page 104

Southern Cooking ABOUT THE AUTHOR Callie’s Biscuits and Southern Traditions: Heirloom Recipes from Our Family Kitchen In her debut cookbook, Carrie Morey shares her modern approach to traditional Southern cooking in seventyfive recipes that pair classic Southern charm with surprising twists, for incredible results. Morey guides readers through the foundational techniques of Southern cooking and how to take the fuss and huge time investment out of traditional dishes. She divulges the recipes for several of her awardwinning biscuits and shares skillet recipes passed down through generations. 102 PEACHYTHEMAGAZINE.COM Carrie Morey founded Callie’s Charleston Biscuits in 2005 with the goal of making the tender, buttery, made-by-hand biscuits of her mother accessible across the country. Touted by Saveur, Food & Wine, Southern Living, The New York Times and Oprah among others, her biscuits have garnered freezer space in some of the most coveted retail stores in America. Using no machinery whatsoever and with only the finest ingredients, Morey and her small team of bakers are keeping the tradition of Southern biscuit-making alive. Morey has appeared on NBC’s Today Show and QVC and has twice been profiled by The Food Network’s hit television show Unwrapped. She was chosen as one of Martha Stewarts’s “Dreamers into Doers” in 2008. In addition to her role as owner at Callie’s Charleston Biscuits, Morey operates an incubator, offering baking space along with mentoring to small artisan food businesses.