Nancie McDermott

Nancie McDermott is a North Carolina native, born in Burlington, raised in High Point, and educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has written 13 cookbooks.

Nancie's first cookbooks focus on Asian kitchens, Her three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand gave her a lifelong love for the cuisines, history and cultures of Asia, and she has spent the last twenty years cooking, reading, traveling, writing, and teaching about Asian food.

Since moving back home to North Carolina she focused on the food and cooking of the American South, where she first fell in love with cooking in her grandmother's dairy farm kitchen.

Nowadays Nancie lives in Chapel Hill NC, and focuses on food writing, teaching cooking classes, and creating videos for her YouTube channel.

Visit her blog, for recipes and to keep track of what's going on with Nancie, cake by cake, pie by pie, and stew by stew!