š Order Up! A conversation with Eden Westbrook, Founder of Sweet Tea + Thyme, Mom, Recipe Developer, and Food Photographer
Eden talks to us about down-home and refined Southern foodways, family memory, and everyday cooking.
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What Real Southern Cooking Looks Like at Home with Sweet Tea + Thyme
Eden Westbrook is a classically trained chef who cooks with family, love, and memory in mind. As the creator of Sweet Tea + Thyme, she shares Southern dishes rooted in family tradition: the collard greens she cleaned by hand with her grandmother, the crab boils that meant sitting shoulder-to-shoulder around the table, the communal way food showed up in her family long before it ever showed up online. Those experiences still guide how she cooks today: slowly, intentionally, and with respect for the people who will be eating.
Trained at Le Cordon Bleu and shaped by years in professional kitchens, Eden brings serious technique to her home cooking, but sheās just as clear about what doesnāt matter. She doesnāt cut corners unless it makes a dish better, isnāt afraid of butter or salt, and believes the best meals come from prep, confidence, and trusting your taste buds. Now raising her family in Virginiaās hunt and wine country, sheās teaching her son the same thing: cooking is a skill, a way of connecting, and a way of caring for people.
In this Order Up! interview, Eden talks about the family dishes that shaped her, how culinary school changed (and didnāt change) the way she cooks at home, the practical skills every home cook should master, and what it really looks like to get good food on the table when life is full.
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A Conversation with Eden Westbrook, Sweet Tea + Thyme
Introduce Yourself: My name is Eden Westbrook, and Iām the creator of Sweet Tea + Thyme. Iām a classically trained chef, recipe developer, mom, and wife.
My husband and I live in hunt and wine country in Northern Virginia, tucked into the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, with our 12-year-old son. Somehow he went from kindergartner to middle school overnight, and I definitely didnāt sign off on that!
