Good Lookin' Cookin'

What is the one dish that, if you smelled it cooking right now, would put you straight back in somebody's kitchen as a kid?

Did you flip through this book and immediately mark a recipe to make, or did you read it cover to cover like a story? What does that say about how you use cookbooks?

The Parton sisters write about a mother feeding a very big family on very little. What did reading that stir up for you about how your own people handled having enough, or not quite enough?

So much of this book is food as a way of saying I love you without saying it. Who in your life cooks (or cooked) for you that way, and did you know it at the time?

The holiday and Sunday-dinner sections carry a lot of ritual. Which tradition in here made you feel warm, and which made you a little wistful for something your family has let slip?

Dolly and Rachel keep the old Smoky Mountain ways and the easier modern shortcuts side by side without apology. How did that land for you, as someone who probably does a little of both?

There is a difference between a recipe you inherit and a recipe you choose. Which kind of cook are you becoming, and has anything about that changed as you have gotten older?

By the time you closed this book, what did it leave you wanting: to call someone, to cook something, or to write something down before it is lost? Sit with that for a second and tell us where it points.