Day One
Arrival, local ingredient sourcing and preparation, casual immersive cooking class; hot water cornbread and picking greens.
Chef Hardette travels to you
Authentic Rural Southern Dinner Experience
This is not catering. This is a homecoming.
An intimate culinary journey at your location or home, created for you and your guests by 2024 James Beard Award Semifinalist Chef Hardette Harris.
Inquire for availability Limited dates
The concept
Food cooked with love because you are loved
Chef Hardette travels to your home and recreates the warmth and soul of authentic Southern cooking in your own kitchen, for you and your guests.
For hosts who have lived in or experienced true Southern cooking, this is a journey of memory, roots, and belonging. It is the way Mama and Big Mama stood at the stove to feed your body and your spirit at the same time.
“The love comes through hot and fiery like a piping hot shot of pot likker."
What’s included
Professional Chef on-site for two full days. Translation: Big Mama comes home.
Day Two
Oral presentation and old fashioned family style dinner. Just like a visit down home.
In Your Kitchen
Guests participate, ask questions, and learn. It is not a performance; it is a sharing, just as grandmother taught at the stove.
Choose your experience
Collard Greens-Hot Water Cornbread-Purple Hull Peas
Welcome Home
Two days, one feast, an immersive cooking demonstration, and an old fashioned family style dinner.
Big Mama's Table
The Sunday Dinner experience, plus a second meal, casual immersive cooking class; hot water cornbread and picking greens.
The Welth Experience
The Homecoming Weekend with an additional family recipe cooking class for dinner.
Fee details
Traveling to you
The client covers groceries at actual cost, kitchen assistant, all travel expenses, lodging, and ground transportation. Chef Fee is separate. Email us at chefharris@usupnorth.com for more information. Seriously Inquiries Only. Final details are confirmed before booking.
ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE
Add On's
Shreveport area only
Live Painting
Brass Band · 1 .5 hours
Violinist
Next-Day Cooking Class + Meal
Guided Fishing Trip
Professional Photography
Custom Recipe Booklet
Perfect for
Bring your people to the table
- Family reunions
- Intimate dinners · 8–15 guests
- Cultural celebrations
- Elevated gatherings
Our promise
We make what grandmother would recognize: the same technique, the same fire, and the same heart. For those who remember what real Southern food tastes like, and know the difference between fed and loved.
Your home. Your people. Your table.
Bring the homecoming to you
Tell Chef Hardette where you are, your preferred dates, and what you are gathering to celebrate. Availability is limited.
Chefharris@usupnorth.com