From being raised on food stamps and battling autoimmune diseases to culinary school, her own restaurant, and now releasing her second cookbook, Mee McCormick has come a long way with her relationship with food.
During her time at a professional culinary program, McCormick learned intensive allergy cooking training. That training has allowed her to offer a fully inclusive table at her restaurant, Pinewood Kitchen & Mercantile in Hickman County, where everyone can enjoy Southern comfort food without worry of food allergies and dietary restrictions.
McCormick’s second cookbook, My Pinewood Kitchen: A Southern Culinary Cure, features more than 130 comfort food recipes that may heal stomach pains, reduce inflammation and reverse chronic autoimmune diseases. For more information on the restaurant and cookbook, visit pinewoodkitchenandmercantile.com.
Giveaway
We’ve partnered with McCormick to give a copy of her new cookbook to one lucky reader. Enter below for your chance to win!
(Note: This book was featured as a giveaway in our Winter 2020-21 issue. The giveaway has now ended. Thanks to all who participated.)
I would love this. Always need new recipes.
I enjoy recipe books.
One of the best chefs around.
Need recipes for healthy eating, please.
I love to cook and would like to try something new
I love a good cookbook.
Autoimmune issues changed my life in a very negative way. I would love to try these recipes and find out more information from Mee McCormick!????????
I love new recipes I retire this week now I can do more cooking so now I need some recipes
Would love to win this cookbook. I need some great new recipes.
I enjoy reading new cookbooks.
I love new cookbooks!
I love new cookbooks!????
I have diabetes and recently diagnosed with leukemia. Most of my issues are autoimmune and I would love to try this cookbook. Sounds amazing!
Always interested in new healthy recipes. Fingers crossed!
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Im really interested in her recipes for reducing inflammation and would live to win
Southern recipes that won’t hurt me! Who wouldn’t want this!
I am interested in this way of cooking, I too have auto immune issues that I would love to get under control.
Love cookbooks
Love new cookbooks!
Would love to win the cookbook
Always like perusing a new cookbook.
Interested in healthy cooking.
I am not a good cook. That’s why I need this cookbook.
Am a recipe fanatic!
I’d like to win because I know someone very special who suffers with issues addressed in this book. I would love to be able to give this book to that special someone as a gift.
Really enjoyed your first book. Learned a lot! Hoping to become healthier through improving my diet. Been to your restaurant a few times and really enjoyed it! It’s really nice to have an alternative and healthier menu!
I love cookbooks.
Great place, good food and people!
I love Southern cooking 🙂
New cookbooks are always great!
My sister, an nurse practitioner, has always had stomach issues, as long as I can remember. I’m curious how much this type of cooking would help her with her issues.
I am a cookbook collector and noticing that you are a gluten-free establishment and we just discovered that my one year old grandson is gluten intolerant makes me want to research more about this type of cooking.
I love to read the recipes in cookbooks. Thanks for the giveaway.
Whoever wins will be excited. Thanks
I love to try new recipes and this cookbook would be a great opportunity for me to make new recipes. Thanks for the giveaway.
I love recipe books and this one would be a great addition to my collection! Thank you for the opportunity to enter!
I live alone so I do all the cooking (if I want to eat). I love to try new recipes so I would enjoy having your cookbook.
Local flavor can only be found in local cookbooks. They are my “go-to” reference in my kitchen’s library. On line? No way. Recipes at my floured fingertips. No worry about messing up the keyboard.
Since I have to eat gluten free I would love to have this cookbook.
I have eaten at Pinewood Kitchen and love everything I have ordered. I definitely need this cookbook!!
I would love this cookbook. I love to cook and host my family. My niece has food allergies, which leaves her out of enjoying some family favorites. I feel terrible when she can’t eat what I have cooked. This cookbook would be a god-send to both of us! She really wants to try new foods – and some old foods if they don’t make her sick.
I have many cookbooks and would be excited to add yours to my collection. Always enjoy new recipes. Thank you for the opportunity to enter.
I’m looking forward to new southern recipes from the garden.
Would this coookbook. I love to cook and enjoy new recipes.
I have severe osteoarthritis, and this cook book could really help me with my pain levels, by decreasing inflammation! Would love to have it! Thank you kindly.
My wife would really love this new cookbook. Just in time for the holidays Thank you
Would love this cookbook. Recipes for food that I can eat.
Im a true southern lady at the age of 60, I do still enjoy trying my culinary skills with the benefits of a great cookbook and I want to win this one! Thank you.
I prefer natural remedies . The cookbook sounds interesting!
I would love to win the cookbook. I was intrigued that there were recipes to reduce inflammation and reverse chronic autoimmune diseases.
The restaurant food is delicious! I would love to have a copy of her cookbook!
We ate at the Pinewood Kitchen this weekend and really enjoyed it. My grandsons have food allergies so it would be great to learn more!
If I lived closer, I’d visit the restaurant…often???? Would love the cookbook, dealing with a stomach health issue and would welcome the recipes.