Linda Ronstadt encountered a pivotal problem when she teamed up with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes to pen a cookbook featuring some of her family's favorite recipes.
"It didn't come together because I don't cook!" said Ronstadt, 76, a National Medal of Arts recipient, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and 11-time Grammy Award-winner.
"So, we decided to turn it into a book about the Sonoran desert and how it's strikingly the same on either side (Mexico and the U.S.), even though they put that border fence in the middle of it."
