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Celebrity chef Tiffany Derry’s style inspiration isn’t a person or a place but rather a quality: functionality. The Beaumont-born chef stays busy; her days are spent going between her three Texas restaurants, including the nationally acclaimed Roots Southern Table in Farmers Branch, and in Plano and Austin, Roots Chicken Shak, where duck-fat fried chicken became her insignia. Added to the mix is her frequent travel as an educational ambassador for the U.S. Embassy, as well as regular appearances on Bravo’s Top Chef, Food Network, and PBS Food. Practicality is an imperative, even more so during Texas summers, which don’t really faze her (unless a restaurant’s air conditioning stops working).“Most days for me are not heels,” Derry says. She prefers pants and jumpsuits to dresses because…

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