In the Kitchen
Cooking
with kids
By Kimberly Shelton kshelton@dailycorinthian.com
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eeding others just comes naturally to Carla Beard. For the past 10 years, the 47-year-old has served as the Food Service Director for First Baptist Church in Corinth. “I feed over 200 people a week on Wednesday nights,” said the director. “I stay really entrenched with it ... just the sheer volume of it and all the event planning. To see the whole fellowship hall enjoying my food is payment enough ... watching families all eating together and sharing a meal I slaved over a hot stove for and took long hours preparing is a reward in of itself.” The former Memphian not only prepares the meals for her church, but makes the lists
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Carla Beard passes on family cooking tradition
and does the shopping as well. “I order in stuff from Cisco and I go to the grocery store every Wednesday morning. We have about 15 volunteers who help out and prepare the salad bar,” said the First Baptist Church member. “I feed them lunch every Wednesday. We put any left overs to good use by donating them to food ministries.” After cooking for such a large number of people, Beard said it is sometimes a challenge to cook for her family of five because she tends to over cook. While the mother of three loves to cook and experiment in the kitchen, she said her real passion is baking. “I like to bake more than I like cooking entrees. I dabble in wedding cakes, muffins,
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Well-known local cook Carla Beard shows Daniel Wilder how to decorate a cake. Beard has a talent for baking and she loves to teach others. Also getting some advice in the kitchen are Daniel’s older sisters, Alaina and Brianna Wilder, all children of Royce and Bevin Wilder of Corinth.
Photo compliments of Sue Elam / On Location Photography