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They say you can tell a Southerner by how they remember every experience based on what food they had.
“How was your trip?”
“Oh, it was wonderful. We had the best peach cobbler…”
History has wired Southerners to think this way. We relate our experiences to what was served, what was prepared… Celebrations center around dishes steeped in tradition and memories of Great Granny preparing her special rolls or pie.
I spent my childhood hearing stories from my great grandmother about a lifetime of sharecropping. They lived in little shack houses provided by land owners where, as a child, my grandmother planted and raised cotton in exchange for lodging and a few monthly staples such as a 25-pound sack of flour and dried beans. Still, their childhood was filled with memories of wonderful food, thanks to the tradition of great Southern cooks having been firmly embedded in the family root system generations earlier when they were among the first to settle the Tennessee Valley.
Generations later, I’m a Home Ec degreed busy mom and wife working from home with my laptop on the kitchen counter and my iPhone to my ear as I try to build a business which I had originally begun purely as a hobby. My days are spent responding to hundreds of emails, taking photographs of food, writing columns for newspapers and magazines, managing a website with over 6 million page views per month, filming cooking segments for a North Alabama ABC Affiliate, and trying to wrangle in time to talk on the phone to food industry execs without my daughter screaming “come wipe me!” in the background.
I wake up singing and hit the ground running. My day seems to start without me and I spend the rest of it trying to catch up with my own life and loving every stinking second of it. I have two great kids who alternate between making me laugh and want to pull my hair out, but we mostly laugh – together.
I am grateful for every single person who takes the time out of their busy lives to read Southern Plate. I love comments on my posts and I am THRILLED when someone tries a recipe and reports back! Thank you all so much for the daily smiles you bring to me, I hope to send a few your way in the process.
Gratefully,
Christy
About SouthernPlate.com: Southern Plate is a rapidly growing website run by Christy Jordan (B.S. Home Economics). 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 it’s second year.
The website is cross promoted through Jordan’s newspaper columns, magazines, and television segments on WAAYTV in North Alabama.
Target Audience: Home cooks of all skill levels, ages, races, gender, and cultural background. SouthernPlate.com isn’t just for Southerners. The Audience includes folks from all over the world. The majority of recipes posted are all from the personal and family recipe collection of Christy Jordan, and readers have come to place great faith in the fact that if Christy didn’t love it, she wouldn’t post it.
Sponsors: Christy accepts sponsors through products and ad sales. Occasionally she agrees to write a post on behalf of a product or company, but only if she truly believes in that product. These posts will be accompanied by a full disclaimer stating that she received payment in exchange for her post.
She will accept products for review purposes and if she finds the product to be useful to her readers, she will gladly post about it. Favorable reviews are not guaranteed in exchange for a product. However, Christy prefers not to post negative reviews so if your product is not one she feels positive about, she’ll just avoid writing about it because her Mama taught her that if you can’t say something nice, you don’t say anything at all.
Past Companies who have Sponsored Southern Plate:
- Velveeta (Christy was chosen to be a Velveeta Kitchenista!)
- Crystal Lite
- Pepperidge Farm (Chosen as one of two bloggers for Puff Pastry line)
- Kraft Singles (Sent to Los Angeles to help promote event)
- Hamilton Beach
- Pioneer Brand
- Wilton
- Rhode’s Bread Dough
- Country Bobs
Ad Sales: For ad space on SouthernPlate.com, please email contact @ southernplate.com with your proposal, a little about your company, and what size/type of ad you are interested in.
All content on SouthernPlate.com is protected under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998. Content theft, either print or electronic, is a federal offense. For permission to use any content on SouthernPlate.com or any other content authored by Christy Jordan, email contact@southernplate.com
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