Born in Corbin, Kentucky, Ronni Lundy has chronicled the people of the hillbilly diaspora as a journalist and a cookbook author. Her books include Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes, and Honest Fried Chicken: The Heart and Soul of Southern Country Kitchens, Butter Beans to Blackberries: Recipes from a Southern Garden, and Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes. She is the former restaurant reviewer and music critic for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, former editor of Louisville Magazine, and she contributes to many national magazines. Gourmet magazine recognized Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes and Honest Fried Chicken as one of six essential books on Southern cooking. In 2017, Lundy received a James Beard Award for her book, Victuals. In 2009, she received the Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance.
You can find her current musings at Our State Magazine and Oxford American.