Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'
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You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking, queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even heard some version of her Cinderella ... Publishers Weekly Anyone who's ever watched, mesmerized, as the author of this memoir panfries a pork chop on the Food Network will find lots to savor in her down-home life story. Deen, the sunny host of Paula's Home Cookingand the author of three cookbooks, relates the collapse of her first marriage, her surprising fight with agoraphobia and the rise of her Savannah restaurant, The Lady & Sons, with candor, good humor and mouthwatering descriptions of Southern food. Of her husband's favorite dish, Sexy Oxtails, Deen writes, "It is a loving dish; a hearty, lip-smacking dish; and those tails are better than a passionate kiss." Yes, she includes the simple, savory recipe alongside favorites like belly-filling Shaggy Man Split Pea Soup, salty-sweet Pan-Fried Corn and addictive Biscuits and Sawmill Gravy. Deen writes the way she talks-lots of ain'ts, darlings and honeys-but the effect is charming and disarmingly upfront. On her early Food Network success, she says, "I was not a size 2, but instead a sassy, roundish, white-headed cook. Women could identify with me... I could be them, and they could be me." She's absolutely right; when Deen has turned the last of life's lemons into Southern-sweet lemonade, readers may want to stand up and cheer, or maybe just tuck into a big, celebratory plate of pork chops. (Apr.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
ContentsForeword 1 Terror with No Name 2 Something Smells Good 3 On Not Listening to Yo' Momma 4 How Do You Get to Be a Woman of Substance When Your World's Fallin' Apart? 5 The Terror Did Have a Name 6 The Bag Lady 7 The Bottoming Out and the New Beginning 8 What I Did for Love 9 The Lady & Sons 10 Sharing Recipes 11 Love on a Tug: Michael 12 How I Got My Own Television Show, and It Wasn't No Desperate Housewives 13 Backstage Secrets and a Weddin' to Beat All 14 Blend. Don't Mix, Stir, or Beat 15 Food, Glorious Food, Southern Style 16 So You Want to Own a Restaurant? 17 Scenes from a Life: Growth, Cameron, Mr. Jimmy, Bubba, and Me 18 Southern Comfort: Things I've Learned Index
