On Tuesday, May 14th, 4-6 p.m. at the downtown Central BBQ, there will be a party celebrating the release of The Southern Vegetarian, the new cookbook by Amy Lawrence and Justin Fox Burks, the couple behind the wildly popular blog The Chubby Vegetarian.
Lawrence and Burks are longtime Flyer friends. Lawrence is a teacher and writer who just won Memphis magazine’s Fiction Contest for the second time. Burks is a talented photographer whose work has appeared in many publications, including Food + Wine and Garden & Gun.
Lawrence (AL) and Burks (JFB) took time to answer questions for Hungry Memphis.
When you first started The Chubby Vegetarian blog, you resisted including recipes. Why?
AL: I think we didn’t really know how to write one back then! Since that time, we’ve learned more and figured out how you have to picture the steps and also try (before things are final) to see how they could be misunderstood because the main goal is to make them really easy to follow and clear.
JFB: We were just sharing how we cook; we started TCV in 2008 as a photo blog just to document the things we were doing in our own kitchen. We had no intention of going through the trouble of writing recipes. More and more people started asking for the recipes, so that’s really the only reason we ever started including them! We’re really glad they asked…
