Pastry Chef and Author Lisa Donovan Talks About Writing Her Memoir, the Restaurant Industry and Chess Pie

On this week’s show, I speak with Lisa Donovan. She’s a pastry chef and James Beard award winning writer. She’s helmed the pastry kitchens of some of the most important restaurants in the country, including Husk in Nashville, and has kept her whole life afloat by making, writing on and thinking about food - including consulting, recipe development, selling pies out of the trunk of her car and creating the now retired Buttermilk Road Sunday Suppers  While Lisa is a pastry chef, this isn’t really a discussion about kitchens, though we do touch on that. She writes full time now, and her first book, Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger was released in August, 2020. Most of our discussion revolves around the process of, and decision to write her memoir, and everything that came along with it. We discuss the current state of the restaurant industry, getting comfortable with your audience even when it’s not who you expected it to be, and I get to talk to her about chess pie.   ========== Lisa Donovan     ========== Lisa’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lisamariedonovan/ Lisa’s book Our Lady Of Perpetual Hunger  Lisa’s Twitter https://twitter.com/ButtermilkRoad Lisa’s recipe for Buttermilk Chess Pie https://bit.ly/3qo66u9 ================ CONNECT WITH US ================ SUPPORT US ON PATREON Get the Chefs Without Restaurants Newsletter Visit Our Amazon Store (we get paid when you buy stuff) Connect on Clubhouse Check out our websites (they have different stuff) https://chefswithoutrestaurants.org/ & https://chefswithoutrestaurants.com/ Like our Facebook page Join the private Facebook group Join the conversation on Twitter Check our Instagram pics Founder Chris Spear’s personal chef business Perfect Little Bites https://perfectlittlebites.com/ Watch on YouTube If you want to support the show, our Venmo name is ChefWoRestos and can be found at https://venmo.com/ChefWoRestos. If you enjoy the show, have every received a job through one of our referrals, have been a guest, , or simply want to help, it would be much appreciated. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions. Get in touch Support the show