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THE PEOPLE, STORIES AND TRENDS THAT INSPIRED US THIS YEARIN AND OUT OF THE KITCHEN

- SONAL DUTT, JASON SHEELER

The Parton sisters are on the set of their People shoot, sitting in front of a strawberry shortcake layered with whipped creambut they're dreaming of something savory: left-handed gravy. "Our daddy was lefthanded, so he'd stir with his left hand," says Dolly, 78. "We thought [it] was so much better than Mama's, because it was left-handed gravy." Family has always been at the core of Dolly's story: One of 12 kids raised in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains, she became a country music legend and created a Dolly megaverse of books, movies, TV shows, a theme park, cake mixes, cookware, fragrances and more tha