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The epic results are in for the
National Best Books 2008 Awards!

Down Home Delicious: Spice up your life with incredible Gulf Coast cooking by Peggy Touchtone Sholly has been honored as a "Finalist" in the "Cookbooks: Regional" category.

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From MySanAntonio.com : 10/08/08
By Karen Haram
Express-News Food Editor

Cookbooks and the woman
who cherishes them
Name: Lemma Nite
Hometown: San Marcos
Collection: More than 12,000 cookbooks, mostly community cookbooks.
What's one of your recent favorites?
“Down Home Delicious” by Peggy Touchtone Sholly. The author grew up in the South. It has a lot of Creole recipes.

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We're proud of our awards!

Peggy, a Houston area resident, is the author of The National Best Books 2008 Awards Finalist and 2008 Mom’s Choice GOLD Award winning cookbook Down Home Delicious, Spice up your life with incredible Gulf Coast cooking. Down Home Delicious has also received an Honorable Mention at the 2008 New England Book Festival. Please visit Peggy’s website www.downhomedelicious.com for more information on Peggy and her book.
 
In 2008 Peggy was on KSTP Channel 5 Twin Cities Live TV in Minneapolis in December, and radio shows in Canada, Minneapolis, New York, Houston, Baton Rouge, California, North Dakota, Florida, and New Jersey, her book was featured on KSTP TV in Minneapolis earlier in the year, and she has done book signings throughout Houston and Baton Rouge at Borders Books, Barnes and Noble Books, and Walden Books, She received rave reviews at the cooking class she taught at Central Market in Houston in October 2008. Her cookbook wasfeatured on Giftionary.com in November. Peggy recently returned from a Publicity Summit in New York and is scheduled for other media events in the coming months.

AWARDS
- Finalist in the San Francisco Book Festival
- San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention
- Mom’s Choice GOLD Award winning cookbook 
- National Best Books 2008 Awards Finalist, and
- Honorable Mention at the 2008 New England Book Festival
- Nashville Book Festival Award
 
MEDIA
Introduced to Media at 2008 Publicity Summit in New York.
 
Featured guest on radio shows in Canada, Minneapolis, New York, Houston, Baton Rouge, California, North Dakota, Florida, and New Jersey and more throughout 2008.
 
Book featured on Minneapolis KSTP TV Morning Show.
 
October 2008 received rave reviews for cooking class she taught at Central Market in Houston. 
 
Featured on Giftionary.com, November 2008
 
Twin Cities Live Cooking Show, KSTP Channel 5 TV Minneapolis/St. Paul.
 
BOOKSIGNINGS
throughout Houston, Tx and Baton Rouge, La. at Borders Books, Barnes and Noble Books, and Walden Books
 
OTHER
Judge, Mom’s Choice 2009 Awards

 
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