First published 2024
Willie Nelson opens his kitchen to reveal the cannabis-infused meals that have fueled his legendary career. The country music icon draws from decades of cooking on tour buses, at his Texas ranch, and in cities across America. Each recipe begins with Nelson's own story about the dish, connecting food to memories of family gatherings, backstage moments, and quiet evenings at home. He presents comfort food classics like buffalo wings, chocolate cake, and fried chicken, each enhanced with cannabis for both flavor and effect. Nelson includes detailed instructions for creating cannabis-infused base ingredients including cannabutter, oils, syrups, sugars, salts, and tinctures. The cookbook combines Nelson's gift for storytelling with his longtime advocacy for cannabis, offering readers both culinary instruction and personal anecdotes from his remarkable life on the road.
Genres: cookbooks, food-and-drink, food-writing
Vibes: intimate, nostalgic, personal
Tropes: advocacy, personal-anecdotes
Setting: Texas
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
256 pages · Hardcover · Gallery Books
Content warnings: drug-use