Editor’s Note: Meet the food truckers who are heading up one of the country’s most popular dining traditions, and discover the southern cooking recipes that have made them famous in their home cities and beyond! Here are three mouth-watering southern cooking recipes from Heather Donahoe’s, new book Southern Food Truck Cookbook. The cookbook features chefs from James Beard…

Heather Donahoe
Heather Donahoe was born in Monroe, Louisiana, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Heather worked as a newspaper reporter at the Tennessean, where she covered business topics and wrote a weekly food column for the Williamson A.M. She is now the managing editor of Washington Restaurant Magazine and cohosts a weekly radio show, DineNW, but her heart will always belong to the Southeast and its cuisine.