Beyonc plans cookbook?

Singer reportedly asks Gwyneth Paltrow for advice...

09:23 28 July 2011

Beyonc is planning to release her own cookbook, according to reports.

The R&B superstar is branching out into the culinary world with a book of soul food recipes inspired by her mother, Tina Knowles.

A source close to the singer told The Mirror:

"Her mom started the tradition whereby anywhere in the world they are, she always puts on a soul food spread of collard greens, cornbread, mac'n'cheese and fried chicken.

"Bey would love to include these family recipes in a book."

The 29-year-old has apparently asked her friend Gwyneth Paltrow, who released her own cookbook this year, for advice:

"As she thinks about a family, she's spoken about this with Gwyn and is raring to go."

A rep for the Best Thing I Never Had singer is yet to comment on the reports.

Beyonc released her fourth studio album, 4, in June 2011.