Perdue Farms
Mitzi Perdue is the spouse of the late Frank Perdue and holds degrees from Harvard University and George Washington University, is a past president of the 35,000 member American Agri-Women and was one of the U.S. Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi. She currently writes for the Academy of Women's Health, and GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.
Perdue Farms is the family-owned parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness. Perdue Farms is a major chicken processing company based in Salisbury, Maryland, United States with annual sales in excess of $6 billion. The company was founded in 1920 and is 95 years old this year.
Most recently, Mitzi authored Tough Man, Tender Chicken, Business and Life Lessons from Frank Perdue, and I Didn’t Bargain for This, her story of growing up as a hotel heiress. She also programmed a computer app, B Healthy U, designed to help people track the interactions of lifestyle factors that influence their energy, sleep, hunger, mood, and ability to handle stress. In addition to being a programmer and software developer, Mitzi is also an artist and designer of EveningEggsâ„¢ handbags.
In addition, Mitzi is the author of the I Want to EggScapeâ„¢ Book, A Quick Guide To Successful Media Appearances, and six cookbooks, including The Farmers’ Cookbook series and the Perdue Chicken Cookbook. She is also the author of more than 1600 newspaper and magazine articles on food, agriculture, the environment, philanthropy, biotechnology genetic engineering, and women’s health.
She was a syndicated columnist for 22 years, and her weekly environmental columns were distributed first by California's Capitol News and later, by Scripps Howard News Service, to roughly 420 newspapers. For two years she served as one of the commissioners for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
Mitzi also produced and hosted more than 400 half hour interview shows, Mitzi’s Country Magazine on KXTV, the CBS affiliate in Sacramento, California. In addition, she hosted and produced more than 300 editions of Mitzi’s Country Comments, which was syndicated to 76 stations. Her radio series, Tips from the Farmer to You, was broadcast weekly for two years on the Coast to Coast Radio Network.