 Trade it and upgrade it now at Appalachian Wireless and receive up to $700 off when you trade your old eligible device in and upgrade to a new iPhone 14 Pro Max or Samsung S23 Ultra on an unlimited Appalachian advantage plan because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. This summer at the Virginia Kentucky State Fair, one woman won first, second, and third place for best cookies, candy, and savory bread. She also won the blue ribbon for cake, pie, brownie, sweet bread, and best overall baked goods along with eight additional blue ribbon wins. This woman was Linda Skeens, a 74 year old grandmother from Appalachia. My son actually was the thing of that. He was going to enter a model car in the competition when we first moved over here in 83. And I think this was 84, 85. He was going to do that. And I had embroidered pillowcases and he talked to me into entering the fair and I won a ribbon and I got hooked on it and I've been doing it ever since. Despite having over 1,500 awards, Skeens encourages her friends to continue to enter competitions alongside her. A lot of my friends do enter stuff in the fair but they respect me and I do them and one of them actually made the comment down there at Russell County Fair. She said, if you beat Linda you're doing good. So and I feel the same way about her because she's really good but everybody goes in there with the thing you just go in there you do what you can do and you hope for the best if you win be happy and if you don't just try to do better the next time. Despite her success in competition, Skeens taught herself how to cook out of necessity. Well actually when I first got married at 16 I couldn't cook. We snacked a lot and all that and I figured I better learn to cook when they start coming along. But I just a lot of times I would get a recipe from my family, my mom, my mother, my friend or I just make one up or get one on the book and I just start cooking and I decide if I wanted to make it I'd make it. Once I learned how I love it I do I enjoy cooking. Skeens will be publishing her first cookbook, Blue Ribbon Cooking, recipes and tips from America's favorite county fair champion this summer. One of the most important aspects to Skeens when writing her book was ensuring her recipes were accessible. When I first started learning to cook I would watch these tv shows where you'd have to have all these special equipments all these special foods. I hadn't even heard of some of them. Couldn't find them at the local Pigley Wiggly at that time. They didn't know what I was talking about. So I like something simple that's what I told Mike Huckabee. He was talking about my peanut butter fudge. I like it easy simple that you can find ingredients and it don't take you all day to make. Delicious. And it's good too. Skeens stated all of her friends and family have encouraged her to write a cookbook for years and she's excited to finally have the opportunity. For more information and to pre-order Blue Ribbon Cooking recipes and tips from America's favorite county fair champion go to lindeskeensblueribbon.com. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.