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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin'by Paula Deen
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 LadyandSons 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. Review:"Anyone who's ever watched, mesmerized, as the author of this memoir pan-fries a porkchop on the Food Network will find lots to savor in her down-home life story. Deen, the sunny host of Paula's Home Cooking and 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 and 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 recipes for 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 porkchops." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:From the bestselling cookbook author and Food Network star comes an inspiring memoir with recipes. Paula Deen shares where she came from, how she transformed herself into a household name, and her exciting plans for the future. Table of ContentsContents Foreword 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 LadyandSons 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 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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