Hello, my name is Dorette Snover.

Bonjour, Buongiorno, and Hello!

Welcome to my writing life.

I love starting seeds, kneading sourdough bread, and finding paths through abandoned fields. I’ve always been a traveler, even when standing still.

How about you?

Perhaps I could even say, a forager of delectable tales.

I love being the raiser of sons, and sometimes granddaughters, and grandsons. Perhaps also a doughnut or two. The dilemmas of being a hospital dietary assistant and a hospital cook, a food-styler of fried chicken, a fraternity cook, learning how to make chevre crottins at a local farm, and how best to calm eclectic cookbook authors while getting them to their gigs, these and other culinary callings have been uniquely memorable pursuits.

I call Chapel Hill, NC home and am delighted to have founded the C’est si Bon! Cooking School, and now thrilled and grateful and proud to call it a second generation business that offers boutique culinary experiences locally and around the world.

"Let there be work, bread, water, and salt for all."

~ Nelson Mandela

I have also been a contributing author to:

Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia.

Volume 2 The Americas. Aruba and Bonaire.

Women Writers, Women (s) Books: Vin de Noix, The Drunken Poetry of Walnuts

The Rambling Epicure: A Woodcock, Girolles, and a French Inn