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Southern New Year’s Day Food Traditions

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Golden Fruit and Nut Cake (Don’t Call it Fruitcake!)

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Snickers Chocolate Pudding Cups

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Plant Forward BBQ: Sweet Heat Pulled Butternut Squash

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Chocolate Ice “Dream”

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Baked Risotto

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Mama, Faith, and her Classic Poundcake

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Cornmeal Cake with Strawberries and Vanilla Cream

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Steel Magnolias Armadillo Butt Cupcakes

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I'm Virginia Willis, a French-trained Southern chef and James Beard award-winning cookbook author.

As a post-menopausal woman, I lost 65 pounds and have kept it off for 4 years. Good and Good For You Living is my real-life approach to health and wellness initiated by lifelong struggles with weight and body image. I quit dieting and changed my life.

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