![]() But I learned a valuable lesson from my mother at that time: She said, 'Cook what you love. It was a little dab of this and a pinch of this. She said, 'You'll use 'em someday.' There never was much of a recipe. She taught us all to cook, clean and sew, you know. ![]() "My mother started me cooking when I was probably six or seven years old. Kent learned how to rope and ride, and how to grill and bake. There's more to a table than just the legs that hold it up. "So, what do you learn by growing up in a place like Hollis?" asked Simon. Kent was raised near the banks of the Red River, where his father ran a cattle business in Hollis, Oklahoma. We create food you can eat." Kent Rollins "Well, chefs are people that have had proper training at school, you know?" re replied. Simon asked, "How do you feel about anybody who calls you a chef?" "Fresh" is impractical - you don't roll past organic farmer's markets on a cattle drive.īut Kent Rollins chops, seasons, and gets Bertha to cough up green beans with snap hominy with green chiles that bite and grilled Angus beef as tender as a honky-tonk torch song, with peach cobbler for dessert. Kent and Shannon Rollins are cooks prepare who their cowboy meals-on-wheels on an actual, working chuck wagon. "Thank you for all the many things and the blessings in life. The cowboys fuel up to work hard, the way few people do anymore: herding 500 cows, 500 calves and 30 bulls across 20,000 acres. ![]() "Lord, I ask you to make us ever-mindful of the little things we take for granted." They warm their hands over cups of coffee and take off their hats under the first streaks of sun, for a morning prayers. And company's coming!Ĭowboys ride up in trucks, hauling snorting horses in trailers behind them. (along with eggs, sausage, gravy and biscuits), on the Calthan Cattle Company ranch near the very small town of Seymour, Texas. Kent and Shannon Rollins offer bright smiles and hot coffee on a cold prairie at 4 a.m. Scott Simon of NPR has been sampling the menu: For hungry cowboys out on the range, nothing hits the spot like the chuck wagon.
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