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Jean Shepherd Cates (1938-2015) new article content ... Jean Cates, born in Turkey, Texas, was an award-winning chuckwagon cook. She and her sister Sue Cunningham won the Western Heritage Classic Cook-Off in 1992 in Abilene, Texas. Cates and Cunningham were the first women to receive this honor. [1]
Cates and Cunningham carried on their father’s tradition of genuine cowboy cooking [2], and their C-Bar-C Chuck Wagon Team catered meals for brandings, weddings, trail rides, and conventions. They also won first overall at the Festival of the West Chuckwagon Cook-off in Scottsdale, Arizona. From the start, Cates and Cunningham were award-winning cooks. They won the American Cowboy Culture Award and earned “Chuck-Wagon of the Year” honors from the Academy of Western Artists. [3]
Before she was awarded championship status for chuck-wagon cooking, Cates worked as a cook in the Channing Café and prepared meals for cowboys at the headquarters for the JA Ranch in Clarendon, Texas. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Cates was a farm and ranch cook in the Texas Panhandle. She also instructed leather stamping at Texas State Technical College and co-owned Cates Saddle Shop with Wayne Cates.
In addition to being practitioners of chuck-wagon cooking, Cates and Cunningham published three cookbooks: Chuckwagon Recipes, More Chuckwagon Recipes, and Chuck Wagon Recipes and Others #3 [4] In these books, Cates and Cunningham offer recipes, personal stories, chuckwagon histories, information about western heritage, and details about the equipment and tools required for chuckwagon cooking. They also published a work titled “Its All About the Buckle: Cooking with the C Bar C, which won the 2011 Will Rogers Medallian Award for Photographic Essays.
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