Martha Hall Foose is an American chef and author from Mississippi. [1]
Foose was a 1986 graduate of St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Ridgeland, Mississippi. [1] She went on to attend École Lenôtre in France before returning to her native Mississippi. [2]
Foose opened Bottletree Bakery in Oxford, Mississippi in the 1990s. [3] After opening Bottletree Bakery, she and her husband moved to Minneapolis, where she worked for Pillsbury as a writer and editor of cookbooks. [3]
In the late 2000s she moved back to Mississippi, where she opened Mockingbird Bakery in Greenwood. [1] [3] From 2011 until 2021 Foose worked as an executive chef at the Viking Cooking School. [3] [4]
Foose was a food stylist for the movie The Help. [1] [3]
Foose lives at Pluto Plantation, her family farm near Greenwood and Tchula, Mississippi. The land previously belonged to her grandmother. [3] She is married to Donald Bender, whom she met after opening Bottletree Bakery; the couple have one son. [3]