Recipes with titles like, Chicken Sate', Shrimp and Crab Salad, Five-Cheese Macaroni and Cheese, and Maryland Crab Cakes are but a few of the 200 "super simple" culinary delights revealed in the easy to read 250-plus-page book. The book is a great resource to help jazz it up in the kitchen. As we all know and can imagine, the climb to the top of one of Amerca's Kitchens can be a long and difficult one, but with Garvin, he makes it look easy. The self-described "humble chef," has a picture perfect presentation style and is destined to become America's new Soul Food Poppa. Oh, and by the way, I am crazy hungry from reading through his cookbook and writing this article.

Journey to the Top of America's Kitchen

              With respect to Garvin's ascent, nobility and fame, I think that it's safe to say that he earned his way to the lead spot at the kitchen table earnestly. According to a one-page bio-sketch of Garvin, which was handed out at the event at Tyson,