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With “Y’ALL EAT YET?” Miranda Lambert became a New York Times best-selling novelist.

Her unique lifestyle and recipe book, co-written with journalist Holly Gleason, celebrates multi-generational female friendships, the power of food and humor to get through tough times, and is making an impact.

It was recently nominated for Best Book, Non-Fiction at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards. “It never occurred to me when we were writing that it was anything more than just talking about where I came from. I am so honored and surprised to be nominated for this award. I promise that the last thing on my mind when we finally finished and got it out was getting nominated for anything, let alone something like this with such an impressive group of books,” said Lambert of the nomination.