With a best-selling new cookbook, Trisha Yearwood this weekend kicks-off the sixth season of her Emmy®-winning Food Network series, Trisha’s Southern Kitchen. And Trisha really hopes that the show encourages more people to cook because she says that stepping into the kitchen shouldn’t be a scary experience. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Catch the season premiere of Trisha’s Southern Kitchen this Saturday, April 18th, at 10:30am, ET, on the Food Network.
• Congratulations to Trisha on the Top 10 debut of her new cookbook, Trisha’s Table: My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life, which debuted at number seven among these New York Times Best Sellers!
• Trisha is currently on the radio with her beautiful new single, “I Remember You,” from her album PrizeFighter: Hit after Hit.
• This weekend, Trisha will be among the presenters at the 50th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards — where her husband Garth Brooks is among the nominees for Entertainer of the Year! Be sure to catch all the excitement as the show airs live from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, this Sunday, April 19th, at 8pm, ET/delayed PT, on CBS!

  Trisha Yearwood wants her cooking show to give anyone the confidence to step into the kitchen. (:25)
“If you watch some of the shows that are really perfect, and you don’t have a lot of confidence as a cook, you might be afraid to try anything. And I think what we show is don’t be scared. The worst thing that happens if you make a horrible mistake is you go out to dinner or you order pizza. You know, it’s like, it’s not…to cook good food, you don’t have to use a ton of ingredients. And that’s how we grew up, you know, so I hope it makes not only me, but the food seem more accessible.”