The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond. M likes. Im a desperate ranch wife. I live in the country. I love Ethel Merman and Basset Hounds. Amen. Ann Marie Ree Drummond ne Smith, born January 6, 1969 is an awardwinning American blogger, No. New York Times bestselling author, food writer, photographer. Ree Drummond is a writer, known for The Pioneer Woman 2011, Thanksgiving Live 2012 and Home Family 2012. She has been married to Ladd. Find the best of Ree Drummond from Food Network. Im the wife of a rugged cowboy. Im the mother of four spirited children. I have horse poop on my porch. Im Ree Drummond, also known as The Pioneer Woman. You can. The Pioneer Woman Plowing through Life in the Country. One Calf Nut at a Time. Ree Drummond Wikipedia. Ree Drummond. Drummond in 2. Visit Amazon. coms Ree Drummond Page and shop for all Ree Drummond books. Check out pictures, bibliography, and biography of Ree Drummond. Ree Drummond, Self The Pioneer Woman. Ree Drummond is a writer, known for The Pioneer Woman 2011, Thanksgiving Live 2012 and Home Family 2012. She has been. Born. Ann Marie Smith. January 6th 1. Age 4. 8Bartlesville, Oklahoma, U. S. Pen name. The Pioneer Woman. Occupation. Blogger, author, food writer, photographer, television personality. Nationality. American. Education. Journalism, Gerontology. Alma mater. University of Southern California Class of 9. Period. 20. 06present. Genre. Biography, Cookbook. WCBC-Ree-Drummond-The-Pioneer-Woman.jpg' alt='Ree Drummond' title='Ree Drummond' />Subject. Cooking, Photography, Home Garden, Homeschooling, Entertainment. Notable awards. Weblog of the Year 2. BloggiesSpouse. Ladd Drummond 1. Children. Alex b. Paige b. 1. 99. 91Bryce b. Todd b. 2. 00. 4Relatives. William Dale Smith, MD fatherGerre Schwert motherDoug Smith brotherMike Smith brotherBetsy Lee Smith sisterWebsitewww. Ann Marie Ree Drummond ne Smith, born January 6, 1. American blogger, No. New York Times bestsellingauthor,1food writer, photographer and television personality who lives on a working ranch outside of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. In February 2. 01. No. 2. 2 on Forbes Top 2. Web Celebritiesone of only four women. Her blog, The Pioneer Woman, which documents Drummonds daily life as a ranch wife and mother, was named Weblog of the Year 2. Annual Weblog Awards The Bloggies. Drummond has appeared on Good Morning America, Today Show, The View, The Chew and The Bonnie Hunt Show. She has been featured in Ladies Home Journal, Womans Day, People and Southern Living. Her first cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl, was published in October 2. Her second cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks Food from My Frontier,1. Cherry Pie Recipe With Cherry Pie Filling. March 2. 01. 2. 1. Early lifeeditAnn Marie, nicknamed Ree, grew up in a home overlooking the grounds of a country club in the oil town of Bartlesville, Oklahoma,9 with two brothers, Doug and Mike, and a younger sister, Betsy. Mike is developmentally disabled. She graduated from Bartlesville High School in 1. Oklahoma to attend college in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1. After graduation she hoped to attend law school in Chicago,1. Ladd Drummond. 9Her father, William Dale Smith, an orthopedic surgeon, and her mother Gerre Schwert1. Bill Smith, as he is more commonly known, later married his current wife, Patsy. Ree was raised Episcopalian. She is an alumna of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women. Blog The. Pioneer. Woman. comeditDrummond began blogging in May 2. Typepad blogging service. She registered her own domain thepioneerwoman. October 1. 8, 2. 00. Drummonds wildly successful blog, titled The Pioneer Woman, was originally titled Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. The latter is now the title of a section within the site. The site is hosted by Rackspace. Drummond writes about topics such as ranch life and homeschooling. About a year after launching her blog, she posted her first recipe1. How to Cook a Steak. The tutorial was accompanied by 2. Her stories about her husband, family, and country living, and her step by step cooking instructions and elaborate food photography, proved highly popular with readers. Confessions of a Pioneer Woman won honors at the Weblog Awards also known as the Bloggies in 2. In 2. 00. 9 and 2. Weblog of the Year. As of September 2. Drummonds blog reportedly received 1. On May 9, 2. 01. 1, the blogs popularity had risen to approximately 2. According to an article in The New Yorker, This is roughly the same number of people who read The Daily Beast. An article in the Toronto. Globe and Mail described it as slickly photographed with legions of fans. The blog has been referenced in the Los Angeles Times,1. The New York Times,2. Business. Week. 2. In 2. 00. 9 TIME Magazine named Drummonds Confessions of a Pioneer Woman one of the 2. Best Blogs in the world. Estimates for her sites income suggest she is making a million dollars or more per year from display advertisement income alone. Drummonds blog is especially noted for its visually descriptive recipes and high quality photography. In April 2. 00. 8, Drummond held a giveaway contest in the cooking section of her blog The Pioneer Woman in which she asked readers to share one of their favorite recipes. The response was an unexpected 5. She realized that she had not only grown a community of loyal readers but a community of food lovers as well. She immediately sought a way to catalog the recipes and make them searchable for all. A little over a year later, on July 1. Drummond announced the launch of Tasty. Kitchen. com a simple and free online community website with the tag line Favorite Recipes from Real Kitchens Everywhere2. The site was built for her food loving readers as a place where they could easily contribute, search for and print recipes. In addition to sharing recipes, users can create personal membership profiles and communicate with one another via posts and direct messages. Users also have the ability to rate and review recipes. Tasty Kitchen quickly rose to become a favorite among food bloggers who could link their recipes back to posts on their own websites, thus exposing themselves to a wider readership. The Pioneer Woman Cooks Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl. Drummonds first cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl,3. October 2. 00. 93. Amazon. coms preorder list for hardcover books. A New York Times reviewer described Drummond as funny, enthusiastic and self deprecating, and commented Vegetarians and gourmands wont find much to cook here, but as a portrait of a real American family kitchen, it works. Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. In 2. 00. 7,3. 4 Drummond began writing a series on her blog titled From Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. In the series, she chronicled her personal love story detailing how, in the process of relocating from Los Angeles to Chicago, she wound up settling down with a cowboy on a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma. In February 2. 01. William Morrow, an imprint of Harper. Collins. It quickly rose to No. The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction3. The Wall Street Journals list. Charlie the Ranch Dog. In April 2. 01. 1, Drummond published a childrens book titled Charlie the Ranch Dog,3. Basset Hound. Charlie. According to Publishers Weekly, Adult readers will recognize in Charlies voice the understated humor that has made Drummonds blog so successful kids should find it irresistible. The book was illustrated by Diane de. Groat, an illustrator of more than 1. The Pioneer Woman Cooks Food from My Frontier. Drummonds second cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks Food from My Frontier,3. March 2. 01. 21. New York Times Bestseller. Charlie and the Christmas Kitty. Diane de. Groat again illustrates this children book about the familys Basset Hound. Released in December 2. The Pioneer Woman Cooks A Year of Holidays 1. Step by Step Recipes for Simple, Scrumptious Celebrations. A cookbook for holidays throughout the year. Released October 2. Charlie and the New Baby. Another childrens book about the familys basset hound, illustrated by Diane de. Groat. Released in April 2. TelevisioneditDrummond made her television debut on an episode of Throwdown With Bobby Flay3. Thanksgiving face off. Flay traveled to her Oklahoma ranch for the event. The episode aired on the Food Network on Wednesday, November 1. Drummonds home cooking beat Flays gourmet style spread in a tight contest. Music artist and fellow Oklahoma resident Trisha Yearwood was one of the judges. In April 2. 01. 1, the Food Network announced that Drummond would host her own daytime television series on the network. The Pioneer Woman premiered on Saturday, August 2. On March 1. 9, 2. Drummond confirmed media reports that Columbia Pictures had acquired the film rights to her book From Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. The production company was reported to be in talks with Reese Witherspoon to star as Ree in a motion picture based on the book.