Tammy Wynette Southern Cookbook, The [Hardcover]

Tammy Wynette (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 1990

Most of these Southern favorites are longtime specialties of the Wynette family that Tammy prepared from memory. Through brief anecdotes and histories of various recipes, she shares some of the memories that made her cooking so special. Detailed recipes of Mississippi-Style Stuffed Bell Peppers, Cornmeal-Fried Potatoes, and Sour Cream Pound Cake are provided, along with dishes as familiar as Chicken Pot Pie, Country Fried Steak and Gravy, Sweet Potato Casserole, and Fresh Apple Cake.

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About the Author

Tammy Wynette grew up on a sharecropper farm in Itawamba County, Mississippi. When she was born, her family had no running water, no indoor plumbing, and no stove. They would have to cook over an open fire and hand-carry water drawn from a nearby spring.

From these humble beginnings, Wynette was considered the undisputed First Lady of Country Music. Winner of two Grammy Awards and three-time winner of the Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year Award, Mrs. Wynette performed on every continent, in hundreds of cities, and in almost every state in the U.S. However, she never lost touch with her roots.

On her home farm in Mississippi, she developed a natural love for fresh vegetables, savory meats, and homemade breads. To stay out of the cotton fields, she learned to cook as a child, and her fondest memories were of her mother and grandmother in the kitchen, with the smell of fried apple pie wafting through the house.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing (June 30, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882897349
• ISBN-13: 978-0882897349
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,388,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love Tammy's Cooking, May 25, 2000

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"wdawnblue" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tammy Wynette Southern Cookbook, The (Hardcover)

I Just love Tammy Wynette. She was a true southern lady. This is the second purchase for this cookbook, I loaned mine out and she refused to give it back because the recipes were out of this world. I just can't live without it. Once I have put together one of the recipes in her book, people always ask for the recipe or ask for me to make it again. Tammy believed in southern cooking, and she believed as well as I do, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. How true that is, my husband loves my cooking when Tammy's in the kitchen with me. I reccomend this book highly it is money well spent.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally old southern recipes that are really from the south., August 16, 2007

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This review is from: Tammy Wynette Southern Cookbook, The (Hardcover)

This book is not for the calorie conscious person, it is a true southern cookbook. If you are an adult raised in the south and failed to get grandma's old recipes, Tammy more than likely has it in here. Very good book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great cookbook, October 25, 2009

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This review is from: Tammy Wynette Southern Cookbook, The (Paperback)

This is a really good and 'easy' cookbook from the first lady of country music. Nice photos inside and the recipes are very easy to follow and are ones that you can make on an everyday basis. I was glad i purchased this book.