![]() “I had no idea that anyone would read it - anyone except for my mother.” and the challenges of home-schooling her four children, ages 5 to 12. She also began writing about her transition to country life, her recollections of L.A. ![]() If she sends forth a call for reader recipes, she gets thousands of entries.Īnd no one is as surprised as Drummond that people are reading.Īfter all, the blog started in May 2006 like so many other blogs do - as a place to post family photos and updates for far-flung relatives. It’s not at all unusual for her blog postings to get hundreds of comments. And it seems that everywhere she turns, she sees another hungry mouth to feed, including four kids, her husband, ranch hands, more than 4,000 head of cattle, 2,000 wild horses and a clutch of cows that wander up on the back porch, leaving cow patties behind.Īnd audiences just gobble it all up, as smitten by the photos and recipes as they are with a glimpse into a much simpler life, and a fairy-tale love story that is tempered by the less romantic parts of ranch living - castrating calves and the bottomless pit of dirty laundry. Now, Drummond lives on a fourth-generation cattle ranch - one of the biggest in the state - that is about 40 miles from the very spot where she grew up. (That’s Drummond’s blog name for the man who would become her husband.) But within just 10 days, Drummond knew: It was goodbye, Chicago, and helllllooooooo, Marlboro Man. It actually took a few more weeks before the two had their first date. She was having drinks with some old friends from high school during said pit stop when she locked eyes across a crowded room with an honest-to-goodness cowboy. You see where this story is going, right? In my wildest, wildest dreams my stay in Oklahoma wouldn’t be beyond three months.” “It never, ever occurred to me that I would wind up back in Oklahoma,” she says. It was supposed to be just a pit stop on the way to Chicago, where she hoped to attend law school. After leaving college in 1991, she worked for a while in L.A. She was a journalism major at first, and then switched to gerontology, of all things. ![]() Within her first week here, she’d hit all the major theme parks and hiked up to the Hollywood sign. I couldn’t wait to get there,” she says.Īnd she didn’t waste a single moment. It was the biggest city I could think of to go. “There was just something about Los Angeles. Though Drummond was raised in Oklahoma, she fled just as soon as she could, heading for Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. She never intended to live on a cattle ranch. I’m not sure what that says about the rest of it,” Drummond jokes. “I hear from readers, I know a lot of them love to look at the pictures. This is one food blog that is as much about the lookin’ as the cookin’. Recipes, though, are almost beside the point. There are canning instructions, and one perennially popular entry is a step-by-step “how to” on cooking a steak. The heart of Pioneer Woman is its food corner, the Pioneer Woman Cooks. ![]() (A recent cake recipe used 53 photos - 53!) It is by turns hilarious, romantic, poignant - and always illustrated by a gasp-inducing number of photographs that verge on the erotic as she chronicles her kitchen’s goings-on. Technorati ranks the Pioneer Woman “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes From an Accidental Country Girl.” on its list of the 100 most powerful and influential blogs in the world.Įach month, roughly 2 million women - and her readers are mostly women - flock to the blog to live vicariously as Drummond unspools her “how in the world did I end up here?” story of a would-be city girl who now finds herself a wife and mother of four living on a ranch in the middle of nowheresville. 1 on Amazon’s preorder list in the Cooking, Food & Wine category. But there’s nothing accidental about the success she’s built combining those two.ĭrummond writes the Pioneer Woman blog and gets about 13 million page views a month, enough to spin off a cookbook: “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes From an Accidental Country Girl.” Although not due out until Oct. Ree Drummond likes to call herself an accidental country girl and she considers herself something of an accidental cook. ![]()
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