Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

I'm your host, Sid Evans.

And for this episode, I sat down with Camilla Alves McConaughey,

who recently came to visit our test kitchens in Birmingham.

She may be best known for her connection

to her famous husband, Matthew McConaughey, but Camilla has a career and a fan base of her own.

After growing up in Brazil and then traveling around the world as a model, she settled down to

raise a family in Texas, a place that now feels very much like home. Not only has she started

a foundation with Matthew to support and empower high school kids, but she also launched an online

community called Women of Today, with recipes and ideas for making life a little easier

and a little more fun. We'll discuss all that, plus her favorite Brazilian foods,

and how she finally won over her mother-in-law on this week's Biscuits and Jam.

Camilla Alvese McCona, hey, welcome to Biscuits and Jam. Oh, thank you so much for having me here.

It's been a nice morning so far.

Well, so Camilla, we just did a tour of the test kitchens where we test all of the Southern Living

recipes and we photographed them as someone who loves to cook.

What did you think?

Very impressive.

It was hard for me to leave.

I wanted to stay there and just start cooking with everybody and learn.

I'm a big fan of continuous learning.

It's beautiful.

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