S9:E16. 04/30/2022
National Cornbread Festival Cook-Off Champ, Bob Kellerman’s Pan Heads, Ronni Lundy’s Tao of Cornbread
We set the table with cast iron, cornbread, and some cornbread cousins. Amy’s guests include the winner of the 25th National Cornbread Festival Cook-Off, Veronica Callaghan. CEO Emeritus and Board Member of Lodge Manufacturing, Bob Kellerman, about his art creations he makes out of recycled pans and parts that he calls Pan Heads. Also, one of the founders of the Southern Foodways Alliance and James Beard Award-winning food writer, Ronni Lundy, with cultural perspectives on sugar, or no sugar in cornbread, and her tao of cornbread.
Links:
Veronica Gallagher: https://www.instagram.com/veronicacallag/
National Cornbread Festival: https://nationalcornbread.com/
Bob Kellerman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIU3-IU6xHQ
Lodge Cast Iron: https://www.lodgecastiron.com/
Ronni Lundy: https://www.ronnilundy.com/
Martha White: https://www.marthawhite.com
Champion of the 25th National Cornbread Festival Cook-Off, Veronica Callaghan wearing the ceremonial crown made by Bob Kellerman.
Bob Kellerman and Amy Campbell at Bob’s Pan Head booth during the 25th National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg, TN.
This is the Pan Head that hangs on our kitchen wall made by Bob Kellerman, CEO Emeritus and board member of Lodge Manufacturing, South Pittsburg, TN.
Veronica’s winning Guacamole cornbread shrimp casserole that won the 25th National Cornbread Festival Cook-Off. .
Pictured: Judges for the 25th National Cornbread Festival Cook-Off. Clockwise: Amy Campbell, Chef Shannon Johnson, of Real Good Smokehouse, Chattanooga, TN; John Currence and daughter, chef and creator of Big Bad Breakfast, Oxford, Mississippi; Karl Worley, Bristol native and Co-Creator of Biscuit Love, Nashville, TN, Kevin Sanders, the barrel man at Jack Daniels Distillery, Darci Marriott of White Lily, and Nancy Meeks, of Hoffman Media, Editor of Southern Cast Iron magazine and the Paula Dean magazine.
Pictured: Amy Campbell with Ronni Lundy. This photograph was taken in 2018 by Laura Pierpont at Ronni’s apartment. Laura is an exceptionally talented artist. Find her work at https://lcpierpontphotography.com/