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Bay Area cookbook memoir serves up southern fare with large side of blues
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Gaynell Rogers is a self-described "wayward Southern belle." She was born in New Orleans and ended up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she met the man she would marry and got into the works of film, publicity, and marketing.
Her soon-to-be husband was guitarist Roy Rogers, born in Redding, but raised in Vallejo and named after the famous Hollywood singing cowboy.
Now, decades later, Gaynell has published a cookbook memoir that reveals not only some wonderful recipes that have been passed down for generations in her family, but also some eye-opening stories about her life, her tribe of friends and advocates, as well as for whom she's cooked.
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In her new cookbook and memoir, “Gaynell’s Kitchen: Down Home Cooking from a Wayward Southern Belle,” Gaynell Rogers writes about a dinner she once hosted at her hillside Novato home for Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal and Charlie Musselwhite.
Everyone gathered in the dining room — painted in warm Tuscan colors inspired by her trips to cooking schools in Italy — for a meal of seafood gumbo, buttermilk cornbread, orange almond salad and cheesecake.
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Gaynell has had a storied career in the worlds of film, publicity and marketing. Working for the likes of Pixar and Lucasfilm.
Gaynell has now turned those stories and her experience as a chef into a new book “Gaynell’s Kitchen: Down Home Cooking from a Wayward Southern Belle.”
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Gaynell Rogers, the voice behind “Gaynell’s Kitchen: Down Home Cooking from A Wayward Southern Belle” has spent a lifetime connecting people through stories and good food.
Both of them chatted with our host Elisa Parker ahead of Roy’s performance at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley on May 23.
High Achiever Gaynell Rogers Shares Her Cannabis, Cancer, and Cooking Journeys
The cannabis-industry veteran collects her stories and recipes in her new book, Gaynell’s Kitchen.
Gaynell Rogers’s personal cannabis journey closely follows the plant’s circuitous path to prominence in the United States, including the sharp turns and the fits and starts. She discovered cannabis during the prohibition-era, as a teenager in the 1960s. Rogers later relocated to the Bay Area, where she worked as a publicist in the music business, the film industry, and the cannabis space. Rogers helped shape the narrative during the early days of medical cannabis, and now the four-time cancer survivor is sharing her story with a new book, Gaynell’s Kitchen: Down Home Cooking From A Wayward Southern Belle.
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