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WE LOVE YOUR AUTHENTICITY AND THAT YOU’RE NOT AFRAID TO MIX FRESH INGREDIENTS WITH CANNED ITEMS. Of course, there has to be food.” I THINK OUR MIDWEST READERS CAN REALLY RELATE TO YOUR MORE CASUAL, FAMILY-FRIENDLY STYLE OF COOKING. I’m working on the second Little Ree right now. “It was really fun to write, and the illustrator, Jacqueline Rogers, is amazing. I didn’t move to the country as a little girl, but it’s a parallel to my story.

It’s about my transition into the country told through the perspective of a little girl.

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“Yes, I had a children’s book series about my dog, Charlie, and I have five books in the Charlie series, but we launched a new series this year called Little Ree. This will be my fifth.” CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN’S BOOK SERIES? I meet so many people from different places without leaving my hometown.” HOW MANY COOKBOOKS HAVE YOU PUBLISHED SO FAR? What I love about it is that it doesn’t require me to travel. He loves to talk, so he finds out where everybody’s from. My father-in-law parked himself in front of the door, and he’s our unofficial greeter. My husband comes in and he eats, but then he’ll meet folks and take pictures. It completes me.” IS YOUR FAMILY INVOLVED IN THE MERCANTILE? It’s all very bright with happy florals and geometric patterns. “My spring line at Walmart has been my favorite collection so far. I’m not one of those people that do things well in advance. “I’ve been working on my fall cookbook coming up in October, hoping I’ll get it done. We’ve worked out most of the kinks, of course, there are always going to be kinks, but we feel like, ‘Maybe we can do this thing.’ We’re about six months in and we’re starting to hit our stride. I thought I would be totally invested in the food, which I am, but my attention always seems to be on the products, so it’s a lot of fun. Things I didn’t think I’d be as interested in, I’m really interested in. It was blood, sweat, tears, blood sweat tears, blood, sweat tears, over and over, but it’s been so rewarding. “My husband and I bought an old building on Main Street in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and slowly developed this vision for The Pioneer Woman Mercantile. It was my first cookbook.” CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE MERCANTILE, THE SPRING LINE AND THE FALL COOKBOOK YOU HAVE COMING UP? Even though I look at it now and could say, ‘Oh this should be better,’ I wouldn’t change a thing about it. I wasn’t trying to make it something it wasn’t, so I just did photos of my kids and my dogs interspersed with the food. That book came out in 2009, and I look back at the photos and I cover my face with my hands because the photos were not good, but I love it because it was me. I had been a food blogger for a couple of years and taught myself photography. “Obviously, I had no idea what I was doing. I couldn’t possibly have done it because it was such a natural evolution.”ĬAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT FIRST COOKBOOK? WHAT WAS IT LIKE? I started posting recipes months later and a couple years later, my first cookbook came out, so if I’d have planned it all ahead of time, there’s no way. I lived in the country for 10 years at that point, so maybe it stored up and needed to come out somehow. It enabled me to express a creative side that I didn’t know I had.

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I just started with a personal blog, free software online and no plan at all except that I would post photos and my mom would read it. I started as a blogger in 2006, and there were certainly blogs then, but it wasn’t quite as prevalent as it would become. Now she can mark North Dakota on her list of states that she’s visited.” CAN YOU TELL OUR READERS HOW IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE COOKING SHOW AND THE BLOGGING?

It was a little bit of a last minute decision. I brought my 17-year-old daughter, Paige. It’s really fun to go to a state that I’ve never been to. It’s amazing how similar it feels to where I live in Oklahoma: nice and flat with big, beautiful skies. It is my first time in North Dakota and I’m 48 years old. It feels a little bit like home, just with different accents. If you’ve ever seen her show, you know what we mean. In her Oklahoma accent, Drummond charmed us with her responses to all of our questions.

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Before she went on stage, Drummond sat down with the editor of Design & Living Magazine, Tracy Nicholson, to talk about her blog, Food Network tv show and other exciting new adventures.