Patsy
Bynum Swendson, a nationally recognized authority on Southwest cuisine, has
delighted her television and radio audiences for over 20 years, authored 49
cookbooks, and been a contributing writer for nine national lifestyle
magazines.
Drawing upon her wealth of professional training in the culinary arts, Patsy uses her talent, imagination and remarkable knowledge of food to create tantalizing, fun recipes. Whether in her cooking classes, or for her television and radio shows, her audiences are loyal, her cookbook readers legion and her ratings tops.
The same culinary perception and love of cooking that has kept her radio and television audiences entertained and enthusiastic will capture you as well in her latest cookbook POPOVERS, PEACHES AND FOUR POSTER BEDS.
Patsy’s career has been vast. She appeared on South Texas’ CBS affiliate for 20 years, published 46 cookbooks, and 5 videos. Additionally she has vast abilities as television and print media prop and food stylist, recipe development specialist for 9 national lifestyle magazines, national spokesperson for Texas Peanut Industry, Chef and Culinary Arts instructor, marketing and food consultant, teacher for national and international convention spouse programs, world-wide travel features for CBS, speaker’s bureau for American Heart Association, guest on "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, celebrity guest chef on QVC, and currently President of P. S. Hospitality, Inc.
As a natural progression and extension
of her c
ulinary and travel background, Patsy currently is the proprietor of
the award winning, nationally recognized Bed and Breakfast in
Fredericksburg, Texas - THE COOK’S COTTAGE . Located in the heart of the
Texas Hill Country THE COOK’S COTTAGE has been selected by Travel and
Leisure Magazine as "One of the Top 25 Most Romantic Places in the U.S."
and Country Home Magazine recently selected it as "One of the Top 5
Most Romantic Inns in America".
It is soon to be featured in The Chile Pepper Magazine, Country Lifestyle Magazine, Culinary Trends Magazine and Country Almanac Magazine.
Additionally The Cook's Cottage & Suites was just selected as EXECUTIVE GETAWAY by Business Opportunities Outlook Magazine.
For twenty years Patsy Swendson's charm and beauty were captured by television cameras. As a TV personality, she hosted her own show on which she gave recipes, cooking tips and travel notes, but this energetic woman wanted to do more. She put her romantic imagination to work and created Cook's Cottage. Her personal grace is evidenced in the softness of her decorating, but the tranquility of her creation gives no hint to the energy that Swendson possesses. Swendson is the author of 49 cookbooks, including the current Popovers, Peaches and Four-Poster Beds, a title which gives Swendson's thoughts away. Her charm has also found its way out into the world via the instinct she prizes most - her impulse to help others. Though Swendson offers us romance and good food, though her credits as a TV personality are legion, her proudest accomplishment has been her work with animals that visit the sick. A charter member of the Delta Society of San Antonio, she served as president for three years during which time the Society accomplished a unique task - they won approval to have certified, tested animals visit the sick in over 68 health care facilities. With her beloved pets, Penny and Grace, Patsy was one of those visitors. She recounts the therapeutic and moving experiences in Penny's From Heaven. While she talks of her dogs, the stories are about the patients. "It's solely about the patient. It isn't about me and it isn't about Penny. Egos must be set aside. It is quite simply about that particular patient, at that particular moment, and his or her struggle to heal and improve their quality of life." Setting one's ego aside is the beginning of a spiritual journey and the strength of this book is that by avoiding herself and focusing on the patients, Swendson takes us on her own journey, one of spiritual growth and learning. We asked Swendson what was next on her agenda. She smiled with a hint in the smile that the best was yet to come. Diana Serbe New York Food/Travel writer |
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