At six o’clock, Tiffany is in the kitchen. “I’m cooking. That’s it,” the 1980s pop star told Fox News Digital. By eight she is watching Netflix, and the next day it starts again.
The singer, whose full name is Tiffany Darwish, lives in Nashville and says she left California and never looked back. Mornings begin with coffee and meditation on the porch, with her dogs and her cat. She prays and expresses gratitude for her life, works out and gets on calls.
She has spent the past several years building a food brand, Let’s Food With Tiffany. It offers recipes, virtual cooking experiences and food events. Her newest project is a cookbook, “Pop Life: The Ultimate 80s Kitchen Encore,” written with Las Vegas celebrity chef Alicia Shevetone. It is out now.
How the cookbook began
The two met after Tiffany traveled to Vegas for a show. They went out to dinner and drinks, with Shevetone’s husband, Mark, and Tiffany’s fiancé, also named Mark. “Two ’80s girls literally listening to soundtrack of the ’80s, having our cocktails,” Tiffany said. “And I just was like, ‘You know what? I think we should do a cookbook together.’” She said the timing felt right because she “organically fell into alignment” with Shevetone.
The book is dedicated to her grandmothers. Her favorite recipe is the German chocolate muffins, since her grandmother loved German chocolate cake. “We really perfected them until they tasted like my grandma’s German chocolate,” she said. Her sister, Cheressa, plated the food and her brother-in-law took the photos. “It was a family affair.” Her signature Lebanese chicken dish also appears, and she has turned it into a salad.
Cooking as therapy
Tiffany says she always loved food and managed to turn the hobby into a business. During the COVID-19 pandemic, cooking became “therapy.” In 2020, she said, “most of my family’s passed away” and everyone felt vulnerable. She was traveling when lockdowns began, got stuck in Los Angeles and was too afraid to get on a plane.
Six years later she has settled into her Nashville routine.
