Taste of the South

Dishing with Cheryl Day

heryl Day learned to bake the way many of us in the South did: by watching her loved ones whip up sweet treats in the kitchen. She was just 8 years old when she started baking alongside her grandmother, but the passion for it never left her. Now she and her husband, Griff,

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