I'm blessed with my mother still living. She still likes to cook, too.

My mother gave me the foundation.

I also like to bake cakes for my pastor, Roosevelt Carter I.

I cook Sunday dinner every week. Friends and family are always dropping by.

My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit

Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved fiercely and was adored in return.