Allison Entrekin did a fantastic job telling my story in Atlanta Magazine this week. A big thank you to her and photographer Stephanie Eley and their crew for a very fun day spent together at LuLu’s North Myrtle Beach.
“Lucy’s daughter Mara was born in July 1971. Ten and a half months later, another daughter, Melanie, arrived. Lucy was an eighteen-year-old wife and mother of two trying to keep house while her husband worked at the same shipyard as her parents. She wanted to do as her grandmother had done and prepare elaborate meals for her family; problem was, she’d never been taught how. So she cracked open the Mobile Junior League cookbook, Jubilee!, and decided to make the first thing that caught her eye: chocolate pound cake. “’Cause that’s practical,” she laughs. But you know what? It was really good. “I found I loved the instant gratification of creating something,” Lucy says.
Thus began Lucy’s adventures in gastronomy, which accompanied her through the many twists and turns to come.” (READ MORE…)
