Patti LaBelle, living legend, beloved musical icon, "Godmother of Soul" (The New York Times), and New York Times bestselling cookbook author, crafts a new collection of her favorite comfort food recipes to help you bring joy and flavor to your family's table. For Patti LaBelle, cooking isn't simply about food-it's about love. Raised in a family of fantastic Southern cooks, she has kept the lessons she learned in her beloved parents' and aunts' kitchens close to her heart but now, she is ready to share these delicious family heirlooms. Combining mouthwatering and accessible recipes with charming personal reminisces of her remarkable life-from learning to cook by observing her parents to whipping up meals for her band after dazzling shows-LaBelle Cuisine will fill your heart as well as your stomach. With a colorful variety of dishes as appetizing as Say-My-Name Smothered Chicken, Wicked Peach Cobbler, Fierce Fried Corn, and more, this cookbook is something to sing about.

In Patti LaBelle's Lite Cuisine, Patti LaBelle shares more than 100 original recipes for meals that are not only good for you but taste great too. She also shares her personal story of a lifetime of struggling with body image and tells of the heartbreaking loss of her mother to diabetes and learning recently that she, too, has the disease. After she was diagnosed with diabetes, LaBelle had to radically change her dietary habits and food choices. With diabetic exchanges provided by the American Dietetic Association and the American Diabetes Association, in Patti LaBelle's Lite Cuisine you'll find a wide array of healthful and heavenly dishes including "Oven (Tastes Like Southern) Fried Chicken," "Savory Shrimp Scampi," "Melt-in-Your-Mouth Roast Tenderloin," and "Killer Chocolate Cake with Guilt-Free Glaze." One of America's most beloved performers once again creates her special blend of delicious and healing magic with this one-of-a-kind cook-book that is destined to become a staple in kitchens all across America.

Patti LaBelle has been known for her cooking for years, first by her family and famous musicians, and then through her first cookbook, the New York Timesbestseller LaBelleCuisine: Recipes to Sing About, which has sold more than 300,000 copies. Today, it's Patti's baking skill that has the country buzzing. It all started with a fan's YouTube review of her sweet potato pie, which is sold nationwide at WalMart. Twenty million views later, everyone was rushing to get their hands on one. In just one weekend, Patti's pies were completely sold out at WalMart stores across the country. Would-be pie scalpers cropped up and the pies, which retail for $3.48 a piece, were selling on eBay for $45. Wal-Mart sold one pie per second for 72 hours straight. Now, for the first time, fans of Patti's pie can make their own and more Patti classics! Patti's dessert cookbook will be filled with her favorite recipes for pies, cakes, cookies, and puddings, as well as movingstories from her career and life in the kitchen. This personal cookbook will appeal to her legions of fans, fans of her cooking show, and the millions who were captivated by Patti's Sweet Potato Pie frenzy.

"All my life people have told them to me. Pearls of wisdom worth more than rubies. 'Sentence sayings' filled with the wisdom of ages. It started with my Grandmother Ellen when I was just a kid. Now, many years later, my family and friends are still telling me pearls of wisdom. And they're some of the wisest things I've ever heard. They have either spared me a whole lot of pain and heartache, or they could have had I had the good sense to listen to them when they were first told to me. I hope you will find as much wisdom in these pearls as I have. Because it can make all the difference in your life."

• Barbie is a doll, not a goal.
• You preach a better sermon with your life than you do with your lips.
• They're the Ten Commandments, not the Ten Suggestions.
• In love, it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.
• Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.
• Save money, and money will save you.
• You don't need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of.