Melanie Akin shares mother’s recipes with Mama’s Table cookbook

Melanie Akin shares mother’s recipes with Mama’s Table cookbook

Melanie Akin has long enjoyed her mother Brenda Sangster’s Southern-style cooking. Now others can too through her cookbook Mama’s Table. The Cordele Dispatch recently interviewed Akin about her new book. Cordele Dispatch: Where is she from originally, and how did she learn to cook? Melanie Akin: Page 55 in book: Mama was born in Cordele. She attended the Northern Heights School, grades 1–6, and graduated from Crisp County High School. She went t…