Miss Daisy Celebrates Tennessee is more than a cookbook, it’s the story of how Tennessee came to “set a fine table.” Its 400 recipes, collected in honor of Tennessee’s Bicentennial, celebrate the people, places, and food companies of the Volunteer State.

 

There are family recipes from Tennessee’s most famous sons and daughters — Elvis Presley’s Vegetable Soup, Amy Grant’s Chop Chop Salad and Darrell Waltrip’s GatorAid Punch — as well as favorites from Miss Daisy (Brunswick Stew, Maryland Creamed Chicken on Cornbread, Five Flavor Pound Cake and Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies).

 

In addition to the recipe collection, there are historical commentaries on the state’s 95 counties and more than one hundred sidebar “spotlights” on Tennessee.