Author

Mandy Rivers

Mandy Rivers is the owner and creator of the South Your Mouth recipe website and author of the South Your Mouth cookbook series. Mandy is an accomplished recipe writer who has established herself as an expert on Southern cooking and family meals and enjoys a loyal following of fans.

Accomplishments:

• Deemed one of America's Best Cooks by Food Network.
• Award-winning recipe creator with over 1,000 published recipes.
• Best-selling cookbook author with two published titles.
• Known for her down-to-earth style, welcoming personality and quick wit. 
• Over 1 million people visit her website each month.
• Has developed dozens of new and unique recipes that have become wildly popular.  

Personality:

• Brings her rural, Southern upbringing to the table in her writing and cooking style.
• Writing style has the uncanny ability to make readers feel like they are old friends who are having a chat.
• Straightforward approach to life and recipes connects with people all over the country.
• Bridges Southern culture and recipes with others. Known for saying "Country is country! Country cooking knows no color or region - we all eat the same!"

Experience:

• Started South Your Mouth recipe site in November 2011.
• Published South Your Mouth - Tried & True Southern Recipes in 2014.
• Published South Your Mouth Some More! in 2016.
• Appeared on Food Network in 2014 and QVC in 2014 and 2016.

Fun Facts:

• Born and raised in Lexington County, South Carolina and lives there still today.
• Immensely enjoys her family and very close with her three (now adult) children.
• Self-taught cook who learned from the Southern women in her life.
• Represented the South with Iron Chef, Cat Cora on "America's Best Cook"
• Avid reader and self-proclaimed nerd.