You're Cooking It Country by Loretta Lynn - 2004

Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press 2004. SIGNED. VG/NF. First Edition, 6th printing with number line ending in 6. Signed by Loretta Lynn in black Sharpie on the front endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine ends gently pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Brown speck on top fore-edges. Faint creases near bottom corners on pages 110-120. 120 recipes. Color and black white matte photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($24.95 on back panel) with light shelf-wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 208 pages. 7¼ x 9¼ tall.

In You're Cookin' It Country, Loretta Lynn shares over 120 of her favorite recipes. From the dishes her mother cooked as she was growing up to the meals she has prepared for her family over the years. Also included are more than 35 stories relating to food as only Loretta can tell them. These include stories of her "Mommy" going out hunting for rabbit and possum. There is also the story of her husband to be, Doolittle, buying a pie from her at an auction only to discover that Loretta had mistaken salt for the sugar when she baked it.

Loretta Lynn was born in the coal mining country of Kentucky. She was the oldest of seven kids; raised in poverty, married at 13, and a mother of 4 by the time she was 17. Few would have expected this type of adolescence to produce a woman who was the winner of every music award imaginable, the author of two New York Times bestselling books and a 2003 Kennedy Center honoree, and whose life story was the subject of an Academy Award winning movie.