cookbook

But she’s also a certified health coach who has written a cookbook.

After a day of reviewing cookbooks and recipes from competent, contemporary cooks, I find myself scrolling toward something stranger: accounts that operate like a digital card catalog of retro culinary horror and delight.

When she published her second cookbook, “It’s All Good,” in 2013, The Atlantic called it the “Bible of Laughable Hollywood Neuroticism” and said she “had gone over the edge.”

After two years of mostly small exchanges — cookbook galleys, costume jewelry, a set of dinner plates with just the right heft — we brought home something that, improbably, shifted the cadence of our cooking.

When Yearwood recently appeared on “Salon Talks,” we talked about her new cookbook, the importance of family, the joys of southern cooking and the secret ingredient that fuels her kitchen.