TUPELO – Sharon Cresswell grew up in a family of good cooks in the tiny town of Strang, Oklahoma, but she didn't get much kitchen experience as a young girl.

"I really didn't cook with my mom," said Cresswell, 73. "She grew up during the Depression, and to say she was tight with her ingredients would be putting it lightly."

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