H O M E COOK S
southern musings
P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y BRIANA BROUGH
When asked what she enjoys most about cooking, Chris Elkins – who owned a hand pie business before becoming an account executive with the Chatham Magazine team – says, “The time spent with family sharing recipes, deciding on what we are going to try, prepping together, cooking the meal and then enjoying it.” Thus, she 60
Chatham Magazine
Fall 2017
Chris serves up her tomato hand pies to husband Rod and friends Dan Deacon, Beth Deacon and Viki Pace-Smith.
usually finds herself cooking in her Governors Club kitchen for her grown children Taylor, Anna and Hanson, her husband Rod and friends like Beth Deacon, Dan Deacon, Viki Pace-Smith, Roland Smith, Mary Jo Rochelle, Dennis Rochelle and Lucinda Poole. When she is by herself, however, her go-to guilty pleasure is a dish from her childhood. “A banana and mayo sandwich with salt and pepper… I have to eat this when no one else is home. It grosses everyone out,” she laughs. – Laura Zolman Kirk