Dolly Parton Opens Up About Cooking With Husband Carl Dean: ‘He’s Good About Cleaning Up for Me’
likes for Dean to keep her company while she’s prepping meals—even if he’s not cleaning up. “I like it when he comes. A lot of times he’ll sit and watch me, or he’ll talk,” she said. “He’s a pretty good cook. Not a gourmet cook, but I tour so much he’s always, through the years, had to fix things for himself. So he knows how to do that, but he loves my cooking.”
Parton loves that the kitchen reconnects her to her southern roots, especially when it comes to delicious desserts, which is why she’s launching a line of southern-style cake mixes—Coconut and Banana Puddin’-flavored—in partnership with Duncan Hines. You can“Growing up poor, we didn’t have a lot of sugar, so we didn’t have cakes all the time,” she explained. “So when Mama made special cakes, we loved being in the kitchen.
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