Ree Drummond

Anne Marie "Ree" Drummond (née Smith, born January 6, 1969) is an American blogger, author,

Early life Drummond, nicknamed "Ree", grew up in a home overlooking the grounds of a country club in the oil town of Bartlesville, Oklahoma,

Blog at ThePioneerWoman.com Drummond began blogging in May 2006, initially using the subdomain pioneerwoman.typepad.com within the Typepad blogging service. She registered her own domain thepioneerwoman.com on October 18, 2006. Drummond's blog, The Pioneer Woman, was originally titled Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. 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 recipe In 2009, Drummond launched TastyKitchen.com – community recipe-sharing site.

Books The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl: Drummond's first cookbook, The book was illustrated by Diane deGroat, an illustrator of more than 120 children's books. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier: Drummond's second cookbook,

Charlie the Ranch Dog: Stuck in the Mud: released January 6, 2015.

Charlie Plays Ball: released March 24, 2015.

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime: a cookbook featuring 125 dinner recipes. Released October 20, 2015.

Charlie the Ranch Dog: Rock Star: released November 17, 2015.

Little Ree: Released March 28, 2017. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It!: a cookbook featuring 120 recipes. Released October 24, 2017.

Little Ree: Best Friends Forever!: released March 27, 2018

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Super Easy!: released October 19, 2021. Ree's Best Family Meals: released online August 2, 2022.

Television Drummond made her television debut on an episode of Throwdown! with Bobby Flay in 2010.

In April 2011, the Food Network announced that Drummond would host her own daytime television series on the network. The Pioneer Woman premiered on Saturday, August 27, 2011. As of 2023, no further information has been released about this project.

Personal life

On September 21, 1996, Drummond married Ladd Drummond (born January 22, 1969), a fourth-generation member of the prominent Osage County cattle ranching Drummond family whom she refers to as "the Marlboro Man" in her books and her blog.

In late 2016, the Drummonds opened The Mercantile, a restaurant retail store located in a 100-year-old downtown Pawhuska building that they bought and began renovating in 2012.

In 2018, the Drummonds opened a bed and breakfast in downtown Pawhuska, "The Boarding House", as well as a pizzeria, "P-Town Pizza". The Drummonds opened "Charlie's Sweet Shop", an ice cream and candy shop, in 2020. The shop was named after their basset hound dog Charlie, who died in 2017.