Sitting on a stool in her Granny Essie’s kitchen, eyeing every move her grandmother made, was how the owner and chef of Mama Kim’s Kitchen, Kimberly McClure, fell in love with the concept of cooking. “My Granny Essie grew up on a farm in a very small town near Little Rock, Arkansas, where she learned to make everything from scratch,” she said. A native Arizonan, McClure was born in Phoenix in 1959. Through the years, she lived with her Granny Essie and would help her in the kitchen with … [Read more...] about Early Culinary Training Helped Kimberly McClure Create Mama Kim’s Kitchen