![]() ![]() In the video created to celebrate her 2011 Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance, Sanders tells how her father, a rural school teacher, purchased the land in approximately 1915 and began successfully cultivating peaches in the early 1920s. She cultivates peaches and vegetables with her brother, on Sanders Peach Farm and Roadside Market, located in Filbert, South Carolina. The eighth of 10 children, Sanders is a fourth-generation farmer. She has also written a cookbook, Dori Sanders' Country Cooking, that mixes recipes and anecdotes. Her first novel, Clover (1990), was a bestseller, and won a 1990 Lillian Smith Book Award. ![]() ![]() Dorinda "Dori" Sanders (born 1934, York County, South Carolina) is an African-American novelist, food writer and farmer. Dori Sanders’ first novel has a powerful story line, told in the voice of a 10-year-old black girl, Clover, whose father dies in a car accident only hours after marrying a white woman. ![]()
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