Ree Drummond Research Paper

Ree Drummond Ree Drummond is a chef that is more famously known as “Pioneer Woman” and more famously known for her southern cooking. She goes by that nickname because she lives on a ranch in Oklahoma, raising cattle and children using a lot of ingredients that they find or make on the ranch. Her children include 2 daughters named Alex and Paige, she also has 2 sons named Tod and Bryce. She is married to a cowboy named Ladd, who is the main reason why she is living on the ranch. Ree also has many dogs that she likes to baby, even when they are not hers. She has often called herself crazy dog lady because she has many of her own and would pet any others she saw. Ree was born on January 6, 1969 and is a middle child with 2 brothers and a sister. When she graduated from college she moved to California to attend the University of Southern California, studying journalism at first but then changing to gerontology. Also in California, she got a job that allowed her to wear black pumps She walked around and lived as a high class women, eating sushi and getting her nails done. After graduating the University in 1991 she hoped to get into law school in Chicago but she never made it that far. While she was at home for a visit, Ree met and fell in love with Ladd and decided to stay at the ranch with him. Along with her new life on the ranch became a new saying that you can hear her say before almost every episode, “My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.” In May of 2006 Ree started to blog just about living on a ranch, what happens and what it is like to homeschool. …show more content…
She named herself Pioneer Woman and her blog was originally named ‘Confessions of a Pioneer Woman.” Nearly a year after starting her blog, Ree submitted her first recipe onto the blog and it was on how to make steak. That was her first big hit and is what put her website on the map. In that same year, 2007 she won the Bloggie for Best kept secret weblog. The next year she won the Best food weblog and Best writing of a weblog at the Bloggies. A year later, 2009 at the Bloggies her blog won Weblog of the year, Best food, Best designed, Best writing, best photography and Most humorous weblog. Also in 2009 she submitted her first cookbook titled The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl Then again in 2010 and again in 2011 she won the Weblog of the year award. Also in 2011 her cookbook From Black Heels to Tractor Wheels- A Love Story got the second spot on the New York Times Best sellers list. Ree Drummond now has 5 and cookbooks and has 3 children’s books that are about a ranch dog named Charlie, after their basset hound, and his adventures. Ree Drummond also has appeared on television and actually has her own television show. Towards the end of 2010 she was on Throwdown! with Bobby Flay who competed against her to make the better Thanksgiving meal. In the end it was Ree that came