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Welcome!
If you're looking for the best of
Southern Regional, Cajun, Low-country and All-American
home cooking, you've come to the right place.
Chef Rick is serving up a delicious blend of Cajun, Creole, and Southern home cooking, along with a touch of Soul food and some good old fashioned down-home cooking. You’ll find cooking tips, food trivia,
advice on choosing and using cookware, and much more. Don’t forget the recipe page where you'll find delicious main dishes, Cajun favorites, and wonderful cakes and pies.
If you love southern cooking, you'll love chefrick.com.
Who is this guy?
My name is Rick McDaniel and I have the best job in the world. I'm a food writer. I get to spend every day thinking
about, writing about, and cooking Southern food! I Learned Southern cooking at my grandmother's knee and a friend from Charleston, SC taught me the wonders of Low country cuisine, the delicious blend of seafood and rice from the South Carolina tidal basin.
Even though I'm a native North Carolinian, I've always
had a special love in my heart for the people and food of Louisiana. Cajun and Creole cooking is one of my specialties, and you'll find lots of good recipes with a Louisiana flavor in the recipe section.
I love the great variety of food found in my native
South -- everything from German cuisine to Cajun and Creole to the wonderful spices of Afro - Caribbean cooking .
I have spent time in restaurant kitchens as both chef
and helper, including a stint in kitchen hell -- cooking pizza eight hours a day while a nearby jukebox blared the Bee Gees and Donna Summer. Yes, that's how I spend the summer of 1978. I even had to
wear a polyester apron! I've also cooked in one restaurant where no one I knew made enough money to eat there.
I launched my weekly cooking column, “What’s Cooking”
in 1996 as a way to spread my love of Southern regional cuisine and make huge amounts of friends and money. So far, my love for cooking is
doing quite well, I have lots of new friends, and I've made just enough cash to afford those Gin Su knives I've always wanted.
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