For Miranda Lambert, who added New York Times best-selling author to her impressive list of accolades with “Y’ALL EAT YET? Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin’ Kitchen,” her lifestyle book became as much an homage to multi-generational female friendship, the power of food and laughter to carry you through hard times and the will to chase impossible dreams as it was a collection of anyone-can-make-them recipes. Unconventional in its lane, like its groundbreaking, multiple GRAMMY-winning author, “Y’All Eat Yet?” – co-written with journalist Holly Gleason – is making its mark in unprecedented ways.
Most recently, it is among the nominees for Best Book, Non-Fiction at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards. It joins Jon Burlingame’s “Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring,” Gerrick Kennedy’s “Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston,” Mark Kernes’ “Preachers Vs. Porn: Exposing Christianity’s War on Sexxx” and Alessandra Mattanza’s “Street Art Is Female” in a very competitive and eclectic category.
“I knew when I started working on this book, I wanted it to be something that shared more than how many cups of flour,” Lambert says. “I was raised by such strong, smart women – my mother and her friends and my Nonny and her friends – that I wanted to celebrate them as much I wanted to make these ladies actually write down their recipes. We live in a world where it’s easy to forget how powerful having that kind of force in your life can be...
“It never occurred to me when we were writing that it was anything more than just talking about where I came from. I am so honored and surprised to be nominated for this award. I promise that the last thing on my mind when we finally finished and got it out was getting nominated for anything, let alone something like this with such an impressive group of books.”
With Texas Monthly raving “it’s a Texan’s dream” and Forbes calling it a “celebration,” Lambert’s book arrived to multiple kudos. Shondaland opined, “Miranda Lambert’s Secret Ingredient is Sisterhood;” Rolling Stone offered it “sees the singer opening up her heart and home in more intimate ways than ever before;” Eating Well concurred, “Reading her new cookbook will make you feel like you’re part of her family;” and Southern culture monthly Garden & Gun celebrated the book as “dedicated to her tight-knit clan of women and the laughter, comfort and good food they fill spaces with.” Even trade Publishers Weekly assessed, “Lambert uses stories of food to celebrate friendship, good times, and the importance of kinship,” while Booklist boiled it down to the fact that the book “quite simply, will enchant.”
“Y’ALL EAT YET? Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin’ Kitchen” is available at retailers and stores across the country including Walmart, Target, Buc-ee’s, Cracker Barrel, Kroger and Whole Foods, Nashville’s Parnassus Books, plus online via Amazon and HERE.
