Dolly Parton to Cook & Sing At Your House
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn.—Legendary entertainer Dolly Parton will treat one lucky fan to a “backyard barbeque and bluegrass festival” to celebrate the launch of Dolly’s Dixie Fixin’s, her new cookbook to benefit the entertainer’s Imagination Library. The cookbook is sold exclusively through Dollywood and Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede Dinner & Show.
“Since I don’t have plans to tour this year, it would be difficult for me to perform at Dollywood to benefit my Imagination Library,” Parton said. “I have been working on this cookbook for a while, so I thought now would be the perfect time to release it and devote all the proceeds to the Dollywood Foundation.”
Advance sales have begun for the limited edition cookbook, which will ship in September. The cost is $27.50, which includes shipping and handling. Each advance purchase of Dolly’s Dixie Fixin’s provides the buyer an entry into an exclusive contest where the grand prize is a “backyard barbeque and bluegrass festival” for the winner and their closest 100 friends and family featuring Dolly as the special guest. As the special guest, Parton will help cook and serve food, take photographs with guests and perform a few songs for the grand prizewinner’s own “backyard barbeque and bluegrass festival.”
Dolly will announce the grand prizewinner on Sept. 15 at the opening of Dollywood’s new Bluegrass & BBQ Festival. The deadline to purchase books to qualify for the grand prize is Sept. 1, 2006 at midnight.
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Dolly’s Dixie Fixin’s features more than 125 recipes, including many from Parton’s personal collection of southern specialties like her popular banana pudding. Many of the recipes were passed down to Parton from her late mother, Avie Lee Parton, as well as several from her mother-in-law, “Mama (Ginny) Dean.” Dolly’s Dixie Fixin’s also includes recipes from Parton’s Dollywood Companies, highlighted by Dixie Stampede Dinner & Show’s sought after Creamy Vegetable Soup. She also shares recipes for dishes inspired by her favorite restaurants discovered during more than 40 years of touring.
“I thought the best way to sweeten the pot was to throw in a big ‘dollyup’ of Dolly Parton,” said Parton. “This should be a whole lot of fun!”
The cookbook will be sold exclusively at Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede Dinner & Show locations in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Branson, Missouri, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Published by Penguin Group (USA), 100-percent of proceeds from sales of Dolly’s Dixie Fixin’s will benefit Parton’s Dollywood Foundation, which sponsors the Imagination Library. Founded in 1996, the Imagination Library provides a free book each month from birth until age five to children in participating communities. Currently, the Imagination Library works with local partners in 600 communities in 42 states. The Imagination Library mails books to more than a quarter million children each month and will provide approximately four million free books in 2006.
Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede Dinner & Show originated in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in 1988, as Dolly’s premier dinner and show experience featuring horses, equestrian thrills and audience participation on a grand scale. The company has since opened locations in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Branson, Missouri and Orlando, Florida.
