Courtney Stacy Taylor


Profession:
Freelance writer/cookbook author/public speaker

Books: How to Eat Like a Southerner and Live to Tell the Tale (Clarkson Potter, 1990) The Southern Cook's Handbook (Quailridge Press, 2001, currently in sixth printing) Cornbread Nation, The Best of Southern Food Writing Articles published in various national magazines including Bon Appetite, Women's, Budget Living, Cucina, as well as Country Roads Magazine in Baton Rouge.
Speaking events include Delta Queen Steamboat Company, The Charleston Food and Wine Festival, Delta State Literary Festival, Natchez Literary Festival, Southern Foodways Symposium, The Today Show, The Eudora Welty Festival

Manager Intimate Home Fine Linens

Education:
Trinity Episcopal Millsaps/Theater major While a Millsaps Player had lead roles in Nude with Violin, Candida, Midsummer Night's Dream, Dangerous Corner, Alice in Wonderland and Picnic, as well as many chorus parts and supporting roles. Also worked costumes, make-up, set construction, lighting, sound and props.

Member:
Pilgrimage Garden Club since serving as Queen in 1979
Life long participant in Historic Natchez Pageant including dancing lead in Audubon in 1977
Served on Yearbook Committee, Official PGC Tour Guide, Birds and Butterflies Committee, Publicity,
Currently: Publicity Chairman

Southern Foodways Association (Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss) Featured Lecturer, 2004
Oral History Program 2004 to present

Trinity Episcopal Church since conformation in 1972
Currently: Serving on Sabadical Design Team

Natchez Little Theater
Played Alma in Eccentricities of a Nightingale in 1979
Worked with Summer Youth Program 2006

Volunteer Natchez Food Festival 2004
Co-chairman Natchez Food Festival 2005

Ballet Mississippi Board of Directors 1994-1995

Volunteer Jackson Zoo 1991-1995

Volunteer MS Museum of Art 1991-1995