From country music to Southern cooking

Country music star Trisha Yearwood, along with her mother and sister, will be in Oklahoma City next Tuesday to sign copies of their new cookbook at Borders bookstore.

Yearwood - along with her mother, Gwen Yearwood, and her sister, Beth Yearwood Bernard - penned “Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes From My Family to Yours.” The book is No. 4 on the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover advice books.

The signing will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Borders Books, Movies, Music & Cafe, 3209 Northwest Expressway. Tickets for the signing will be available that day at Borders. For more information, call 848-2667.

Sharon Dowell, food editor for The Oklahoman, interviewed Yearwood and is featuring her and the book on the cover of today’s Food section.

Yearwood makes her home in Owasso with her husband, Oklahoma-born country music star Garth Brooks, who wrote the foreword for the cookbook.

The “How Do I Live” singer told Sharon that when she moved to Oklahoma, her mother and sister compiled a notebook of family recipes that formed the basis for the cookbook.

Although she had no previous experience putting together a cookbook, Yearwood told Sharon that she had specific ideas about how she wanted hers to look.