Spoonbread

Spoonbread's restaurants -- Miss Mamies at 110th Street near Columbia University; and Miss Maudes at 547 Lenox Avenue in Harlem -- serve reasonably priced, home-made cooking in comfortable surroundings. Spoonbread Catering is a full service caterer, offering various types of upscale cuisine for elegant corporate events, weddings and parties.Norma Jean Darden, A leading New York fashion model, Norma Jean Darden graced the pages of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Essence & Italian Vogue(among others) and the runways of Halston, Oscar de la Renta, Givenchy and Issey Miyaki. At a party, an editor for Vogue suggested she write a cookbook -- reasoning that since she was from the south (and black) she must have some great family recipes.