Elizabeth Terry

Career Terry's first jobs before college had been selling bridal clothes and dressmaking in a fabric store.

The year after opening, Atlanta Magazine described the restaurant as "the finest restaurant anywhere in coastal Georgia." Terry was featured in magazines including Food & Wine, Lear's, In 1996, she wrote the cookbook Savannah Seasons with her daughter Alexis. Some of her recipes had previously been published in newspapers, In the early 2000s, Terry was a visiting chef at cooking demonstrations in New York and at the Kellogg Center, Michigan State University. By 2005, Terry had retired, and the Butch brothers continued to run Elizabeth on 37th, using some of Terry's old recipes. Following the death of her husband in 2012, Terry moved to live near her daughter on the West Coast.

Awards 1995 - James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Southeast 2005 - Barbara Tropp President's Award, Women Chefs & Restaurateurs