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Herald-Dispatch Katie Lee makes appearance with husband Billy Joel on 'Oprah'

Mar 23, 2008 @ 10:30 PM

The Herald-Dispatch

HUNTINGTON -- In decades of performing, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame member Billy Joel has done just about every big venue out there.

Today, he chalks up a new one, and you bet he'll score some points with the his sweetie for this one.

He gets to have an "a-ha" moment with his better half and the queen of TV, as he and his wife Katie Lee Joel make an appearance together on "Oprah."
"Oprah" airs at 4 p.m. on WSAZ and at 7 p.m. on MyZ.
The Joels will give Oprah's audience a behind-the-scenes look at their New York City home.

Billy will play a song for the audience, and Cabell County native and culinary expert, Katie Lee, will share some recipes from her new book, "The Comfort Table."

Set to hit bookstores in May, "The Comfort Table" is already getting a good splash of press with mentions on the Food Network that tabs Katie Lee as "one skinny girl who can cook her butt off."

The Miami University grad who brought her culinary talents to Bravo's "Top Chef," a column in Hampton's Magazine, a special correspondent position for Extra and a seat on the judges' panel of "Iron Chef America," doesn't stray far from the foods of home in "The Comfort Table."

It's filled with more than 125 recipes many from her family, as well as updates on those children classics she loved growing up in West Virginia.

The book includes such Southern staples like fried green tomatoes, chicken and dumplings, peach cobbler, meatloaf and the quintessential pulled pork BBQ, which stand alongside contemporary classics like roasted carrot and ginger soup, citrus-tarragon mahi-mahi and dijon and pistachio-crusted rack of lamb.
Katie Lee Joel was last in the area for a public appearance in September 2006 when she put on a cooking clinic as part of the Marshall Artists Series' "Kindred

Spirits: A Celebration of Food and Drink."

She will have a book signing of her new book, which features photos by Miki Duiserhof and a foreword by Paula H. Deen, at Borders Books Music and Cafe at the Huntington Mall on May 10.