Looking for a New Recipe?
February 13, 2013
The shelves of our Library are filled with a variety of cookbooks that are checked out constantly. They’re big. They’re small. They have beautiful photos. My favorite cook is Ree Drummond, "The Pioneer Woman." She and I have something in common. We’re both from Oklahoma.
I started watching her show on the Food Channel on Saturday mornings. Her style is down to earth and practical. She uses things that aren’t out of the ordinary, things I normally purchase.
When I found out that she had written a book about herself, I was intrigued. I read The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story. It made me laugh when I learned she used to be a vegetarian, but married a cattle rancher. What a switch in her life style!
Ree is quirky with a sense of humor. She tells stories about herself, and she is not at all pretentious.
I’ve learned that others on the Raytown staff have tried recipes from her cookbooks and liked them all. MCPL has a lot of copies, but they are all checked out. So I decided to put my name on the hold list for: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier and The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.
Ree even wrote a book about her dog. It’s a JE book called Charlie the Ranch Dog. It made me smile. The illustrations are bright and colorful just like the photos on her blog and in her books.
I can’t wait until the cookbooks come in. In the meantime, I’ll watch her show. I am sure I’ll find some recipes to comfort me during these cold winter days.
Mary M.
Raytown Branch
Comments
Wow!
Wow, Anonymous, you mean she doesn't make up every one of her recipes? Some come from local cookbooks? That seems reasonable to me. And her family is paid to allow wild Mustangs to run free on their land? Why does this seem like a vendetta by a local person? I enjoy her show. Period. I am not expecting her to be perfect. I frankly don't care about her personal business.
The Pioneer Woman Is Fake
Pardon me, but have you looked at the back story on Ree Drummond? She's anything but a "pioneer woman." Ree is married to one of the largest landowners in the US and lives in the lap of luxury on their ranch in Osage County. The Pioneer Woman is an internet persona manufactured by Ree Drummond and a bevy of highly-compensated, Madison Avenue publicists. Ask yourself how many "little ol' ranch wives" have the time to write books, test recipes, photograph and photoshop them, operate a multi-layered blog, film a television show, go on cross-country book tours all while homeschooling four kids, doing mounds of laundry and sweeping cow patties off the front porch. She doesn't.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Ree Drummond has hired help, lots of it, to run her household and assist with her proliferation of her ranch fairy tale. Those recipes you love, most were ripped right out of church and community cookbooks from Bartlesville, OK. The dogs are part of the package deal as well. Ree doesn't even run her blog without the help of Voce Communications, a web conglomerate.
Last year alone, Ree Drummond was embroiled in not one but two plagiarism scandals stemming from her blog posts. And those wild mustangs she claims she loves, who wouldn't? The US Bureau of Land Management pays Drummond Land & Cattle to the tune of two million dollars a year to babysit those horses.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet particularly where Ree Drummond is concerned. For more info, see these blogs:
http://themarlborowoman.com
Ree Drummond
Wow, I can't imagine that her life is so offensive to you that you have to blast her like that. I enjoy the SHOW, and frankly I wish her the best! I looked at the website you cited above, and cant understand why someone would hate her for going skiing and givig wild Mustangs somewhere to run. That website appears to be a vendetta against the woman. Why? Did she beat someone in a cooking contest at the State Fair or something?
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