I'm a city girl with country roots that run deep. I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. My father was from Greenwood, Louisiana and I spent many an afternoon making mud pies with my cousins or playing hide and seek in the woods. My grandparents, both maternal and paternal, came from huge families that raised their own hogs and turkeys for slaughter and grew their own collard greens and peas. I recall the afternoons that I spent with my great-grandmother, Granny-Gran is what I c