Press Release: Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood by Trisha Yearwood
COUNTRY STAR & BESTSELLING COOKBOOK AUTHOR SHARES THE FOOD THAT BRINGS HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS TOGETHER
Trisha Yearwood
with
Gwen Yearwood & Beth Yearwood Bernard
Forward by Garth Brooks
“I have always associated really good food with really good company. If you’re with people you love, and you’re having fun and enjoying life, great food is almost like another guest at the table.” —from the Introduction
Country music star Trisha Yearwood, along with her mother, Gwen, and her sister, Beth, have compiled another round of hearty family recipes in the follow-up to their bestselling Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen with the soon to be released: HOME COOKING WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD (Clarkson Potter Publishers; On Sale April 6, 2010; $29.99, hardcover). With personal anecdotes and time-tested family recipes, these dishes have been culled from Trisha’s own recent gatherings and shared meals with extended family and close circle of friends.
Trisha believes that cooking for others is an act of love and her friends, family, and fans of her previous cookbook know you don’t leave a the Yearwood gathering hungry! Complete with simple recipes made with easy-to-find ingredients, personal anecdotes, and delicious depictions of the book’s hearty fare HOME COOKING WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD is a user-friendly cookbook that reads like notes from a friend.
HOME COOKING WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD offers practical advice on everything from how to easily ice a cake to how to expertly cut a slice of pie and includes time-saving tips and ingredient substitutions. In HOME COOKING WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD, Trisha ably serves up delicious Southern fare from her own kitchen and helps you figure out what delicious food to bring when you’re invited to a supper, a picnic, or a party.
With full-color photography throughout, HOME COOKING WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD is a soulful and sincere testament to a Southern life well lived. Readers will find great Southern meals, including: Garth’s Breakfast Bowl, Cowboy Lasagne, Cornbread Salad with French Dressing, Vegetable Pie, Spice Cake with Lemon Sauce, and Grandma Yearwood’s Coconut Cake. Whether you are cooking for a group or having a quiet night in, HOME COOKING WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD will be an indispensable collection of easy recipes, a tribute to Southern hospitality, and an intimate look into good times with Trisha Yearwood.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TRISHA YEARWOOD is one of the highest-selling female artists in Country music history and the author of the bestselling cookbook, Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen. In addition to her three Grammy Awards, the Grand Ole Opry member is a three-time Country Music Award winner and a two-time Academy of Country Music Award winner. She has been honored with an American Music Award, a Pollstar Concert Industry Award and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2000. She has performed at the Olympic Summer Games, at the White House, at Clinton’s inauguration, she dueted with Pavarotti in Italy, and was named one of Redbook Magazine’s Women of the Year in 2005. Since her 1991 debut, Yearwood has recorded twelve albums, the most recent of which is “Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love.” The album earned her a 2008 Grammy nomination and caps off a hit-list of nine #1 songs and twenty Top Ten hits under her belt, including “She’s in Love With the Boy,” “Walkaway Joe,” and “How Do I Live.”
HOME COOKING WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD
By Trisha Yearwood with Gwen Yearwood and Beth Yearwood Bernard
Foreword by Garth Brooks
Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-307-46523-8/Price: $29.99/Hardcover/100 full-color photos
On Sale Date: April 6, 2010
For more information about the book or to schedule an interview with Trisha Yearwood, please contact Tammy Blake in Clarkson Potter Publicity at 212.572.2542 or tblake@randomhouse.com