Former Salisbury resident Pat Branning will donate the proceeds from her new cookbook to the fund raiser Kidsbloom at Salisbury Academy.
The fundraising event, which includes a silent auction, games, food vendors and more, takes place Saturday at Salisbury Academy, which is located at 2210 Jake Alexander Blvd N.
Branningís book, ěShrimp, Collards & Grits: Recipes, Stories and Art from the Creeks and Gardens of the Lowcountry,î is a full color coffee table cookbook which contains almost 200 Lowcountry recipes and 150 fine art paintings by noted Southern artists as Ray Ellis, Nancy Ricker Rhett, John Carroll Doyle and Joe Bowler among others.
Branning was a featured author at this yearís Charleston Food and Wine Festival March 3-6.
The book retails for $34.95. Branning website is www.mycarolinacooking.com. For more information about Kidsbloom, visit www.salisburyacademy.org.