For multitalented chef, author, restaurant owner, food advocate, and television personality Jennifer Hill Booker, the South is more than a place or a style of cuisine. It’s a fundamental part of her identity as a creative, entwined with her soul, carrying her through every trial and tribulation. The South is also where—after many years of traveling and relocating across the country and beyond—she decided to settle once and for all.
“My family is from a little town in Mississippi called Charleston,” Jennifer says. “And you don’t forget that or stop being Southern just because you move somewhere else.”
In fact, Jennifer’s identity as a native Southerner is something she carried proudly during her travels between military bases
