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Isaiah’s Busy Bee Café

Born in Oxford, Georgia Isaiah spent thirty years cooking for Ole Miss Chancellors J. D. Williams and Porter Fortune. When she finally retired, she still had the urge to feed her friends and neighbors and opened her own café. She had a little bee that she always put her change in, and so she decided to name it after the little bee. Isaiah’s Busy Bee Café opened for business on Christmas Eve 1971.

For the next twenty or so years she plucked vegetables from her garden, fried chicken, baked pound cakes and sweet potato pies and brewed mint tea to the delight of the greater Oxford community. Miss Isaiah is gone and so is her café, but memories of this woman and her glorious food still swim in many hearts and stomachs around this small college town.

“Georgia worked at the Chancellor’s home as as cook and general cleaning, but she did much more. I was the only one of my siblings that lived at home for any amount of time during Dad’s tenure as Chancellor, and Georgia, along with Willie B, took it upon themselves to take care of me during the many times my parents were out of town. I would look forward to seeing her and having her wonderful meals everyday, and she always made sure I had plenty to eat when she was not there. She would cook special treats for us when we all came home for holidays, and when she opened the Busy Bee, would make me promise to come eat there so she could make sure I was fed.”

–Carey Fortune

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