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The Washington Post – Walter Nichols says Shauna wrote a book that "Took Guts to Write" |
Offal Great - A Memoir from the Queen of Chitlins
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This is a real life, beautiful, and inspiring love story of Smithsonian installed, Shauna Anderson, President and CEO of the nationally famous Chitlinmarket.com. After discovering she has mental challenges that include panic and anxiety attacks, fifty year old Shauna takes you on an exciting journey describing her unique love affair with her 35 year old restaurant building contractor, AJ, who himself suffers from severe mental challenges. Shauna describes what it is like to simultaneously operate several successful businesses while searching for mental wellness for herself and for the love of her life. The journey moves you through the Southwest Washington housing projects, her simultaneously dating of four doctors who were employed at the same hospital, to the Celebrity ridden Chitlin Business. Her experiences leaves you breathless as she fights City and County Governments for the right to have a Chitlin Restaurant within a Maryland community. In addition, she is raising her teenage daughter as a single mom, and managing the multi-personalities of herself and AJ. The journey continues as Shauna shares many soul food recipes given to her by her inspirational great aunts, including fried chitlins with plum sauce and Ruther Glen Virginia corn pudding. Shauna completes the journey by taking you into the world of the twelve step program as she applies it to her successful business techniques and to her mental health. |
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Do you know what offal is? It’s garbage, throw-aways from butchered meat – brains, intestines and livers. Smart survivalists have turned offal into delicacies like fois gras, pate and sweetbreads and the African American delicacy, chitlins. Shauna has made a small fortune on throw-aways and it has become a metaphor for her life. |
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Shauna is an African American woman who by the age of 50; had founded and managed three successful businesses, profited from smart real estate investments, helped many people get off of public assistance and raised a beautiful daughter, all on her own. Shauna was inducted into the Smithsonian Institute for her work in slave heritage preservation. While she is a very successful business woman, it is her personal life that makes this book a page turner. Shauna’s restaurant was taken away from her because it was accidentally placed in an area planned for redevelopment in the State of Maryland. Two other African Americans had their Church’s Chicken restaurant Franchise taken away from them in the State of Maryland. Coincidence?? Are there more?? |
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Shauna’s autobiography will take you on a journey through the trials and tribulations and a survival story against great odds. Through love affairs, business successes and countless challenges, Shauna has built a full life with great dignity and humor. |
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As a math prodigy, Shauna was accepted into a program at the IRS working as an economic statistician by age 15 and teaching IRS tax code by 19. She made smart real estate investments, built a successful accounting business and her online Chitlin business, with celebrity clients around the world. Shauna continuously receives national press coverage, most recently being named Saveur Magazine’s choice for hand cleaned Chitlins and chosen for Black Enterprise Magazine”s Feature Story on Black Wealth Initiative.
COMING SOON!! Book Two “Something Greater” by Shauna R Anderson
As the drama continues to unfold...
Shauna’s told that if she doesn’t go down properly, that is, if she does not file bankruptcy that they will not only proceed to take away the restaurant, they will take away her ability to help people. She must choose! Check back to read the list of famous people to enter the story in BOOK TWO Something Greater. |
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