Sweetie Pie's Cookbook: Soulful Southern Recipes, from My Family to Yours

Robbie Montgomery spent her early childhood years in Mississippi before she and her family moved to St. Louis. As the oldest of 9 children, Robbie was often responsible for putting meals on the family table. By working side by side with her mother in their St. Louis kitchen, Robbie learned to prepare dozens of her mother's classic soul food dishes.

The act of mothers training their daughters in the kitchen has become a lost art. Miss Robbie's cookbook will help bring back this tradition. It features recipes for her most popular soul food dishes, such as smothered pork chops, salmon croquettes, and baked chicken, as well as heartfelt and humorous stories. She shares amazing tales from life on the road as a back-up singer with Ike and Tina Turner. Miss Robbie is 72, and her Southern recipes have been passed down from generation to generation. She sees the television show, "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's", and cookbook as a way to maintain the place of soul food cooking - the recipes, history, and legacy-in American culture for decades to come.