[2] He also developed a love for French cooking through Julia Child's popular television series[3] and decided to pursue a career as a chef.

[4] Scott Peacock and Edna Lewis first met in the late 1980s,[3] and together they wrote The Gift of Southern Cooking (Knopf, 2003).

Lewis spent the last six years of her life living at Peacock’s Decatur, Georgia, home.

[5] After leaving his Watershed restaurant in 2010, Peacock moved to Marion, Alabama, where he renovated the kitchen of an antebellum mansion, known as Reverie.

[7][8] Since February 2009 Scott Peacock has been a contributing editor and columnist for Better Homes and Gardens magazine.