“Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.”-Wendall Berry
I started my career in food after a lay off from the medical field and I started Tamie Cook Culinary Productions in Atlanta in 2013 after the end of Good Eats, a wildly popular cooking show hosted by Alton Brown. Since then, I’ve had the honor of working on James Beard award-winning cookbooks, developing recipes for multi-national companies, hosting pop up dinners and supper clubs featuring local farmers and purveyors, teaching a Mindful Eating course for 6 years, cooking for local fundraising events, as well as actors in Atlanta working in the film industry. I’ve taught myriad in-person and virtual cooking classes and produced, “Serve and Protect”, a sustainable seafood event with the Tennessee Aquarium, raising more than $1.7 million dollars over the last 10 years. Food has taken me to a brownstone in Harlem in celebration of the history and contributions of Black cooks, to The Mansion at Churchill Downs to make biscuits, it’s taken me to Versace’s home in Miami for a wonderfully outlandish cookbook shoot and it’s taken me to movie sets where I’ve gotten to feed Avengers and Academy Award winning actors. I am deeply humbled by these experiences and grateful that I get to spend my life, doing what I love. I would love to work with you to help make your project the best it can be or cook you the best meal of your life.
