Trisha Yearwood photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.

Last week, Trisha Yearwood hit the bookshelves for the third time in her career and for the second time as an author. She released a 2008 cookbook, Georgia Cooking In An Oklahoma Kitchen, and now has a follow-up volume, Home Cooking With Trisha Yearwood.

Once again, she teamed with her mom, Gwen Yearwood, and sister Beth Yearwood Bernard to write it. As good as the recipes might be, Trisha had to be persuaded to write a second kitchen companion.

“I just didn’t want to do it if it couldn’t be great,” she told the Westwood One Radio Network. “I didn’t just want to throw in, ‘Well, here’s just some leftover recipes,’ you know. I just didn’t want to do it if it couldn’t be as good as the first one. And I didn’t know how it could be, because that first book had all the basics, — fried chicken and mashed potatoes and roast beef, and all the things that are just basic meals, and I wanted this to be the same.”

Prior to a family reunion, Trisha asked for contributions and was overwhelmed by the volume of dishes her relatives suggested. And thus she’s now doing the rounds to publicize her latest book, which includes a foreword by husband Garth Brooks.

So what was that first book Trisha was involved in? It was called Get Hot Or Go Home: Trisha Yearwood, The Making Of A Country Star. She didn’t write it, but she allowed another author, Lisa Rebecca Gubernick, to follow her through the process of ramping up a music career following the release of a first album. The book came out in 1993.

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