The story behind acclaimed Alabama chef Kelsey Barnard Clark’s new cookbook

By: Eric Velasco

Kelsey Barnard Clark knows a thing or two about entertaining. As a longtime caterer, lauded restaurateur and practiced home host, the Alabama native is an expert at throwing gatherings both casual and formal, large and small.

She started catering at age 15, and over the next two decades worked at Michelin-starred restaurants in New York City before opening her own business, KBC, in Dothan. Clark was a semifinalist in 2023 for a prestigious regional best chef award from the James Beard Foundation. A television personality, she was the first Southerner and fifth woman to win the cooking competition “Top Chef” in 2019.

The Dothan resident — Alabama’s answer to Martha Stewart — distilled all that experience into her latest book, “Southern Get-Togethers: A Guide to Hosting Unforgettable Gatherings.”

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