Country’s Kitchen: Country Singers and Their Cookbooks
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
29-9-2015 10:00 AM
Description
For decades, many country stars have enjoyed success as celebrity pseudo-chefs, authoring cookbooks marketed toward their fans. Kitty Wells, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams Jr., Tricia Yearwood, Martina McBride: all have (ostensibly) written cookbooks full of simple country fare. But besides providing recipes for Loretta Lynn’s Tater Cakes, Kenny Rogers’s Pineapple Chicken Cheese Melt, and Zac Brown’s Revival Peach Cobbler, these cookbooks also allow country singers to manipulate their public personas—particularly in terms of class and gender performance.
Recommended Citation
Blomeley, Sarah, "Country’s Kitchen: Country Singers and Their Cookbooks" (2015). Humanities Symposium. 31.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2015/2015/31
Country’s Kitchen: Country Singers and Their Cookbooks
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
For decades, many country stars have enjoyed success as celebrity pseudo-chefs, authoring cookbooks marketed toward their fans. Kitty Wells, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams Jr., Tricia Yearwood, Martina McBride: all have (ostensibly) written cookbooks full of simple country fare. But besides providing recipes for Loretta Lynn’s Tater Cakes, Kenny Rogers’s Pineapple Chicken Cheese Melt, and Zac Brown’s Revival Peach Cobbler, these cookbooks also allow country singers to manipulate their public personas—particularly in terms of class and gender performance.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture