Kent Whitaker (East Ridge, TN) has taken his down-home, Southern-style cooking to an art-form. He is the author of numerous titles in the STATE HOMETOWN COOKBOOK SERIES plus three additional cookbooks "" Smoke in the Mountains, Checkered Flag Cooking, and The Little Gulf Coast Seafood Cookbook "" as well as several non-cookbook titles. Kent has appeared on the Food Network and other network television stations and frequently hosts cooking classes throughout the South. He writes cooking columns for several newspapers and magazines. Kent and his wife, Allyson, have one son, Macee, and live in East Tennessee with a Golden Retriever, Moses, and a Shitzu, Barney.
