Dolly Parton’s favourite Southern dishes reflected the Tennessee family cooking traditions she described throughout her career.

– Chicken and dumplings, a recipe she associated with her mother and kept partly secret.
– Biscuits and gravy, which she said she ate for breakfast at least weekly.
– Banana pudding, made with vanilla wafers and sliced bananas in her cookbook version.
– Potatoes in almost any form, which she called her dietary weakness.
– Meatloaf and fried chicken, which she also enjoyed preparing.