If you've ever looked through our cookbook selection, chances are that one of us has come over and GUSHED about Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest: Recipes and Stories Inspired by my Appalachian Home by Lauren McDuffie. It's one of our very favorites.

Now Lauren has a new cookbook called Homeade-ish and we're thrilled that she'll be here to talk about it! Creating and enjoying home-cooked food is time well spent, but sometimes we’re busy—almost too busy—to be bothered with the task of cooking, with the work of it all. How do we reconcile the impact and importance of providing home-cooked meals with the ever-lurking busyness that threatens to send us dashing to our doors to answer the call of our latest food deliveries? What do we do about this?⁠

Homemade-ish is a sassy, no-guilt cookbook, with more than 100 quick-and-easy recipes, that support busy folks wanting to provide healthy home-cooked meals for their family.⁠

Blacksburg native and Virginia Tech grad Lauren McDuffie is an award-winning food blogger, photographer/stylist, and cookbook author. She lives in Portland, OR with her family.