Do you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the
butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of
melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The
Lady & Sons to taste for yourself the down-home delicacies that
made her famous and even heard some version of her Cinderella story
(a single mom with two teenage sons started a brown-bag lunch
business with $200 and wound up with a thriving restaurant, a
fairy-tale second marriage, and wildly popular television shows),
but you have never heard the intimate details of her often bumpy
road to fame and fortune.
Courageously honest, downright inspiring, and just a little bit
saucy, Paula shares the highs and lows of her life in the
inimitable charming and irreverent style that you know from her
television shows and personal appearances. She talks about long
childhood summers spent in a bathing suit and roller skates and
hard years living in the back of her father's gas station; a
buzzing high school social life of sleepovers, parties,
cheerleading, and boys; and a difficult marriage. The death of her
beloved parents precipitated a debilitating agoraphobia that
crippled her for years. But even when the going got tough, Paula
never lost the good grace and sense of humor that would eventually
help carry her to success and stardom. Of course, you can't get by
on charm alone: as Paula has learned, you need plenty of willpower,
hard work, and, above all, the love and support of family and
friends to finance, sustain, and run a successful restaurant.
In each chapter, Paula shares new recipes: there's serious
comfort food like her momma's Chocolate-Dippy Doughnuts, Courage
Chili for when you know life's going to get tough, Sexy Oxtails for
seducing that special someone, and the recipe for her new
mother-in-law's Banana Nut Delight Cake that Paula finally got just
right. And you'll love the never-before-seen photos of her
family.
In this memoir, Paula Deen speaks as frankly and intimately as
few women in the public eye have ever dared. Whether she's telling
tales of good times or bad, her story is proof that the
old-fashioned American dream is alive and kicking, and there still
is such a thing as a real-life happy ending.
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