Last summer, the Internet was abuzz with word of a mysterious cook from Virginia sweeping the competition at county fairs. Turns out, her name is Linda Skeens—a wife of 58 years, mother of three, grandmother of five (soon to be six), and great-grandmother to two—whose cooking and craftiness had made her a local legend many moons ago. And the rest of the world was just finding out.
What the Internet didn’t know at the time was that Linda was no new competitor. Since entering her first fair competition 30 years ago, she’d amassed more than 1,000 ribbons tucked away in closets
