From her kitchen to yours: Louisiana native is TikTok famous

STONEWALL, La. (AP) — Brittany Kham was just a regular girl from South Louisiana when she decided to download popular video app TikTok out of sheer boredom. Now, she’s sitting at 1.2 million followers and counting.

Kham was born and raised in several southern Louisiana Parishes including Sulfur, Kinder and Lake Charles and now resides in Stonewall with her husband. While she didn’t grow up cooking, she was always present in the kitchen watching and learning.

She started out her culinary journey learning to make simple dishes like rice and gravy or her mama’s stew while she was babysitting her younger brothers. From there, she went on to become the meeting spot in college where she began really testing her skills.

Like many others, Kham downloaded TikTok as a joke to cure her boredom. Used to a busy lifestyle with two jobs and college, she found herself having a lot of unwanted downtime with a regular 9-5.

The first video she ever posted went semi-viral. An old video she had saved in her phone of her competing in a corn-eating contest where a beauty queen beat her by a single kernel. She continued to post random videos until the rude comments got to be too much and she deleted the account.

She didn’t stay gone for long though and ended up creating a whole new account where the TikTok algorithm seemed to put her on the food side of the app. A popular sound being used where it asks you to show people your spice cabinet, proudly showcasing her giant can of Slap Ya Mama seasoning is what catapulted her onto FoodTok.