Photo by Aubrie Pick
Of course, Dolly had to get a starring role in CookbookCorner! Good Lookin’ Cookin', dedicated “to every person who has ever raided a garden, opened a refrigerator, held a spatula, or put a skillet or a pot on the stove to furnish love and nourishment to those they hold dear, and to those who believe that good food and good times are the next best thing to pure love…” is a rhinestone romp of a book, and if there are more photographs — not that I’ve counted — of Dolly and her sister and co-author Rachel, that’s exactly how it should be. You may well want their recipes for Steak and Lobster with Drawn Butter, Garden Salad with Miracle Madness Dressing, Light My Fire Bananas Foster, Angel Biscuits, Corn Fritters, Dirt Road Martini, Chocolate Cobbler, and Sloppy Dogs, but even if you didn’t, if you’re a Dolly fan you’ll want this book.
I remember reading an interview with Dolly decades ago, in which she said that she kept a bowl of bacon grease in the fridge of every kitchen she had, and when I saw, in the introduction to the Country Ham and Biscuits, that she shares my view on moisturising from the inside — of course this glorious recipe had to be the one I shared with you today!
Extracted from Good Lookin’ Cookin’ by Dolly Parton and Rachel Parton George (Ebury Press, £27).
Photography by Aubrie Pick.
