“Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities”

In the spirit of Kentucky neighborliness, you are invited to take a lighthearted peek into the personal recipe files of celebrities from all across the state of Kentucky as well as those who have strong ties to the Bluegrass State.

This is just what “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities” gives you an opportunity to do. The cookbook has over 300 recipes from local and national personalities, highly visible Kentucky businesses, artist, writers, athletes, sportsmen, actors, musicians, bed and breakfasts, restaurants, notable events and places. In addition, there are brief notes with each recipe on the contributor.

Kentucky native Pamela Whinnery, who put the cookbook together, said she did not think of herself as an author. She felt the real authors were all of the wonderful individuals who took time from their busy schedules to graciously share their favorite recipes. She believes they were willing to do this as they knew the cookbook & each recipe is to be a gift to be shared as a fundraiser for Non-Profit Organizations all across Kentucky.

Whinnery’s goal is to use the cookbook as a fundraiser for non-profit and charitable organizations. She stated, “Fifty percent of any copies that are sold will be given to charities or non-profit organizations that wish to use it as a fundraiser. The other fifty percent is to cover my cost. I feel God has blessed me and this is a way I can give back to the community.”

She started this project almost 6 years ago and has been working on it in her free time.

It has been fun & exciting! There have been so many interesting people and e-mails.

Paducah native, actress Jeri Ryan & her husband French Chef Christophe Eme sent an incredible recipe for lamb, even though they had just had a new baby.

She recalls when sending his recipe, Academy Award Winner Bub Asman of Louisville brought a smile to her face with the statement, “I knew that Oscar would finally pay off.”

Probably the most interesting recipe was from Tom Rickman from Sharpe, KY, whose screenwriting/directing feature movie credits include Oscar-nominated “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” & “Truman,” for which he received an Emmy nomination, “Breakfast with Morrie,” and “Berry Gordy’s Motown,” a miniseries.

The description was just like a short story. Rickman said of his Meatloaf Wellington, “I tried this recipe once on a group of friends from whom the reviews were somewhat, well, guarded. It was, admittedly, an experiment: I wanted to make a downhome version of a Beef Wellington, substituting for its upscale (expensive) ingredients some very downscale (cheap) equivalents n meat loaf instead of a choice cut of beef, braunschweiger (or liverwurst) instead of pate de foie gras, etc. My guests applauded the political statement I was trying to make (they were Californians) while politely not asking for second helpings. I liked it though.” Unfortunately, because she had to edit the cookbook to the publisher’s format, Whinnery could not include that information.

In addition to being a charitable fundraiser, Whinnery believes the cookbook is also a great way to publicize and promote Kentucky tourism, business, industry, historic sites, and most of all the wonderful people who were born, lived, or have ties to Kentucky.

If you would like to use the cookbook as a fundraiser contact her at Pamela Whinnery, 5754 Lovelaceville Rd. Paducah, KY, 42001; e-mail whinneryw@bellsouth.net, or she can be reached at 270-554-5332. If you are interested in purchasing an individual copy, they are $19.95 each with $2.95 for shipping. If you want 3 or more copies, the shipping would be $2.00 each or $1.50 each for orders of 10 or more.

Title: “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities”

COMPILED BY: Pamela Whinnery

Sample Recipe:

Oven Baked BBQ & Olive Oil Marinated Chicken Breast from Lee Reherman

4 chicken breast

BBQ sauce

Olive Oil

1. Fill a deep oven pan about a good generous layer of BBQ Sauce.

2. Mix in a substantial amount of Olive Oil, but no TOO much.

3. Cut up several chicken breasts into smaller “chicken nugget” sized pieces.

4. Wash the smaller pieces of chicken thoroughly (obviously), but put

the chicken into the pan while still wet, as this will dilute the

BBQ/Olive oil into just the right marination where the BBQ sauce

won’t harden while cooking.

5. Mix the chicken in the pan making sure all the pieces of chicken

are covered thoroughly (you can let this sit for awhile, but it

doesn’t make that much difference.)

6. Cook in the oven on 375-400 for 30 minutes.

7. After cooking, immediately put all the contents of the pan—both

chicken and marinade—into any container that can hold it all, cover,

and let this sit for a couple of hours.

8. In that time, the BBQ/Oil will continue to soak and cook right

into the chicken making it unbelievably juicy, tender, and tasty.

Lee Reherman of Louisville was a standout at Cornell University before playing pro football with the Miami Dolphins as part of their offensive line. While working on his PhD. at UCLA he could be seen as “Hawk” on the television series American Gladiators.

List of contributors:

A Personal Touch (Artist Studio)

A Taste Of Kentucky (Ky Made Products)

Abraham Lincoln Memorial Library/Museum

Ace Folk Festival

Actors Theatre of Louisville

Aircastle Inn (Bed & Breakfast)

Aleksander House (Bed & Breakfast)

American Quilter’s Society

Ashland, Kentucky

Asman, Bub (Oscar Winning Sound Editor)

Azur Restaurant

Banana Tree Studio (Artist Studio)

Banks, Pat (Artist)

Barkley, Alben (U.S. Vice-President)

Barlow House Museum

Barton, Teresa (Judge Executive)

Battle of Perryville

Baur House (Bed & Breakfast)

BB Riverboats

Beaton, Ron (Television Anchor)

Beaumont Inn (Bed & Breakfast)

Belew, Adrian (Professional Rock Guitarist)

Bell of Louisville

Bell Sisters (Professional Singers)

Bella Notta (Restaurant)

Belski, Ron (Emmy award winning meteorologist)

Benedict, Jennie (Restaurant Founder)

Berea College

Berea Spoonbread Festival

Berea Shady Lane (Bed & Breakfast)

Bertram, Gary (Artist)

Beshear, Steve (Governor)

Biagi, Peter (cinematographer)

Bingham, Roger (Television’s Survivor)

Blair, Ron (Film Producer)

Blake, Toni (Author)

Bluegrass Balloon Festival

Boone Tavern

Bottrell, David (Actor / Screenwriter)

Boyd, Stephen (Professional Speaker)

Bramble Ridge Orchard

Brass Lantern (Restaurant)

Broadbent Country Hams

Broad Run Vineyards

Brown, W. Earl (Actor)

Brune, Ray (Emmy & Peabody Winning Producer)

Buffalo Trace Distillery

Burmester, Leo (Actor)

Burnette, Dr. Sonny (Musician / Educator)

Burr, Lonnie (Mouseketeer / Actor)

Burton, Lance (Magician)

Cabin Creek Band

Camp Nelson Heritage Park

Canaan Land Farms (Bed & Breakfast)

Carr, Trent (Rock Musician)

Carson Center

Carter Cave Resort Park

Cave Run Muskie (Fishing Guide)

Cayce, Edgar (Medical Clairvoyant)

Center for Appalachian Studies

Chapman, Steve Curtis (Grammy & Dove Award Winning Musician)

Chapman-Crane, Jeff (Artist)

Chestnut Tree Gallery

Christian Way Farms

Christopher’s (Bed & Breakfast)

Cobb, Irvin S. (Writer / Journalist)

Coffee Tree Cabin (Bed & Breakfast)

Columbus Belmont State Park

Completely Kentucky (Ky Made Products)

Cook, Bob C. (Actor/Director)

Cook, Julian (NPR, CBC, Armed Forces Radio Commentator)

Corvette Homecoming

Creekside Treasures (Artist Studio)

Cross, Paul (Producer/ Director)

Cyrus, Billy Ray & Miley (Actor/actress & Musicians)

Daniel Boone National Forest

Daniel Boone Outdoor Drama

Davidson’s Studios

De Paiva, Kassie (Actress)

Dept. of Ag./ Rick Farmer (Professional Basketball Player)

Diamond Caverns

Dinsmore Homestead

Dippin Dot Ice Cream

Doodles Studios

Dot & Dash (Professional Dancers)

Drawing Board Farms

Driver, Jim (Restaurant Founder)

Duncan House (Bed & Breakfast)

Dudgeon, Amy (Actress)

Durbin, Justin (Cinematic Composer & Digital Artist)

Dyszel, Dick (Emmy Award Winning Television Host)

Eight of August Homecoming

Ellis Park Racetrack

Elmore, Larry (Comic Book & Science Fiction Artist)

Evans Orchard

Evans, Dale (Singer & Actress)

Everly Brothers (Musicians)

Executive West Hotel

Explorium of Lexington (Science Museum)

Farewell Drifters (Musicians)

Farr, Sidney (Author)

First Farm Inn (Bed & Breakfast)

Fletcher, Ernie (Governor)

Fleming County

Ford, Clint (CEO of Ford Creative Media)

Ford Motor Co.

Fordville Days

Four Roses Distillary

Frances BBQ

Frontier Christmas Ball

Gallary House (Bed & Breakfast)

Gateway (Bed & Breakfast)

Gayle, Crystal (Singer)

General Butler State Park

Georgetown College

Glier Goetta Festival

Good OL Days (Restaurant)

Grand Rivers Hunter’s Moon Festival

Gray, T.L. (Author)

Grapevine Inn (Bed & Breakfast)

Griffith, D. W. (Producer / Director)

Grisanti’s (Restaurant)

Gutierrez, Suzanne (Actress & Casting Director)

Hall, Tom T. (Singer)

Harper Country Hams

Harrods Creek Baptist Church

Hayden, Nick (Moto GP Racing Champion)

Hearld, Tim (Hunting / Fishing Guide)

Heartland Dulcimer Club

Heaven Hill Distillery

Helm House (Bed & Breakfast)

Henry, Heather French (Miss America)

Higgs, Liz Curtis (Author)

Hill, Erin (Actress, Composer, & Musician)

Hillcrest Collectables (Artist /Basket Maker)

Hillbilly Days Gospel Jubilee

Historic Crescent-Hill 4th July Celebration

Holder, Cindy (Gospel-Recording Artist)

Homestead (Bed & Breakfast)

Honorable Order of the Kentucky Colonel

Hummel, Hollie (Actress)

Ice House Gallery

Inn at Woodhaven (Bed & Breakfast)

International Bluegrass Music Museum

J.D. Legends (Restaurant)

Jailer’s Inn (Bed & Breakfast)

Jefferson Davis State Historic Site

Jewish Hospital

Jeffery, Terry Mike (Musician)

Johnston, Annie Fellows (Author)

Jones, Jennifour (Actress & Producer)

Jones, Ken (Playwright & Screenwriter)

Jones, Loyal (Author)

Jones, Sandy (Mayor)

Jubilee in the Breaks

Judd, Ashley (Actress)

Judd, Naomi (Singer)

Judeen’s Art Gallery

Kavanaugh House (Bed & Breakfast)

Keeneland Thoroughbred Racetrack

Kentucky Aquaculture

Kentucky Corn Growers Association

Kentucky Cove Restaurant

Kentucky Derby Festival

Kentucky Derby Museum

Kentucky Down Under

Kentucky Gateway Museum

Kentucky Headhunters (Muscians)

Kentucky High School Invitational Rodeo

Kentucky History Center

Kentucky Poultry Growers Asso.

Kentucky Soybean Association

Klotter, Jim (Kentucky State Historian)

Labrot & Graham Distillery

Land Between the Lakes

Lanmark Farms

Last Call (Film Festival)

Lavender Hills Farm

Lawson, Shannon (Musician)

Lebanon Tourist Commission

Ledford, Colista (Musician)

Ledford, Homer (Musician and Musical instrument Maker)

Lewis, Ron (U.S. Representative)

Lilly’s Bistro

Lincoln Jamboree

Lincoln Museum

Locust Grove (Historic Home)

London Drag way

Louisville Chorus

Magee’s Bakery

Makers Mark Distillery

Mantle Rock (Native American Historic Site)

Maple Hill (Bed & Breakfast)

Maple Hill Manor (Bed & Breakfast)

Market House Theatre

Mason County

Mason, Bobbie Ann (Author)

May, William I. (Mayor)

May’s Lick Asparagus Festival

McAtee, Robert (Actor)

McCall, Joan (Screenwriter)

McConnell, Mitch (US Senator)

McCord, Catherine (fashion model & actress)

McCreary County Museum

McDowell House Museum

Melde, Merri (Equine photographer)

Metropolitan Hotel

Mid-Continent College

Monroe, Bill (Musician)

Montgomery, John Michael (Musician)

Morse, Ro

Mosher, Matthew (Cinematographer)

Moth, Sean (U of L Sports Information)

Mountain Art Center

Mountain Homeplace

Murray Spring Classic Car Show

Murray, Ann (Professional Speaker)

Nash, J. Richy (Actor / Writer)

National Corvette Homecomeing

National Quilt Museum

National Society 0f Sons of the American Revolution

National Softball Association

Natural Bridge State Park

New Coon Creek Girls

Norman, Cheryl (Author)

Northup, Anne (U.S. Representative)

Old Bardstown Village

Old Friend’s Equine

Old Governor’s Mansion

Old Kentucky Candy

Old Kentucky Dinner Train

Old Talbert Inn (Restaurant)

Owsley, Becca (Feature Writer)

Parker, Fess (Actor)

Parrish, Julie (Actress)

Payne, Reagan (Actress / Writer)

Pearson, Monica (Emmy Award Winning Television Anchor)

Penn Store

Pennyroyal Museum

Perdew, Kelly (Winner Donald Trump’s Apprentice)

Petrino, Bobby (Professional & College Football Coach)

Pilkington, Bob (Freelance Producer & Director)

Pine Mountain Settlement

Pinecrest Park Resort

Poke Salad Festival

Pollard, Stu (Producer / Writer)

Proof on Main (Restaurant)

Quail Hollow Candle Factory

Rebecca Ruth Candy

Red Dog & Company (Custom Made Chairs)

Red Mile (Harness Racing Track)

Reherman, Lee (Professional Football Player / Actor)

Rickman, Tom (Screenwriter/Director)

Rock, Joanne (Author)

Rogers, Jeff (Professional Photographer)

Rollins, Kenneth (Gold Medallist & Professional Basketball Player)

Rollins, R.M. (Artist)

Roof, Phil (Professional Baseball Player & Coach)

Rose Hill Inn (Bed & Breakfast)

Ruth Hunt Candy

Ryan, Jeri/ Christophe Eme (Actress/ Executive Chef)

Sawyier, Paul (Artist)

Scope, John (Educator)

Scott Hams

Shaker Museum South Union

Shumpert, Terry (Professional Baseball Player)

Simon, Alex (Screenwriter /Magazine Editor)

Sims, Mollie (Actress / Fashion Model)

South Central Cultural Center

Sowders, Tillie (Artist)

Speed Museum

Spindletop Hall

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Stephenson, John (Ky. State Supt. of Education)

Stewart, Redd (Musician)

Stewart, Sharon (Author)

Stone, Conway (Professional speaker / Author)

Stonefence Bistro

Storybook Inn (Bed & Breakfast)

Swann’s Nest (Bed & Breakfast)

Thunder Over Louisville

Toad Hollow Vineyard

Tools, Bob (1st Artificial Heart Implant Recipient)

Tomlin, Lilly (Actress / Comedian)

Toyota Motor Co.

Tribble, Kipp (Actor, Writer, & Producer)

Valley of the Wind Art Gallery

Varanse (Restaurant)

Varden’s Café

Vinzenzo’s (Restaurant)

USEC Inc.

Warren, Robert Penn (Author)

Wehrmann, Art (Executive Chef)

Weisenberger Mills

Welch, Brewier (Actor)

Weller Haus (Bed & Breakfast)

Whitehaven Welcome Center

Whistle Stop Café

White Hall

Whitfield, Ed (U.S. Representative)

Wickliffe Mounds (Native American Site)

Wild Turkey Distillery

Wolf Creek Dam

Wood, Tom (Actor)

Woody’s on Main (Restaurant)

Yarmuth, John (U.S. Representative)

Yoakam, Dwight (Musician /Actor)