Minnie Pearl's Chess Pie

We met afterwards in the Round Robin bar at the infamous Watergate Hotel for a drink. Minnie took a long drink of Bourbon, patted me on the knee and said in her inimitable direct fashion: “Let me be the first to tell you James Baker ... She usually gave the column short shrift and mostly I listened as Minnie held forth on some interesting person she'd met or a book she'd just read. As in life, when it came to conversation Minnie preferred the state route to the freeway. ...