James Beard Award finalist Ashleigh Shanti’s debut cookbook, ‘Our South,’ comes out just as her beloved city fights to recover from a once-in-a-generation storm.
“Every day is an emotional rollercoaster,” James Beard Award finalist chef Ashleigh Shanti says of life in Asheville after Hurricane Helene. At least, that’s what I think she says. Cell phone service still isn’t great in the Appalachian town, so she breaks up a little. But her next line comes through loud and clear: “This has been a really painful experience.
” While most Americans may be familiar with the coastal cuisine served in Charleston or the crawfish boils of the Georgia Golden Isles, the backcountry isn’t a place whose culinary heritage is often highlighted on a national stage. “It’s just seen as very simple and maybe even bland,” says Shanti. As the cookbook unfurls, the chef shatters that assumption with recipe after recipe. There are multiple types of chow chows as well as hush puppies with Southern corn ketchup.
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