Synopses & Reviews
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 story (a single mom with two teenage sons started a brown-bag lunch business with $200 and wound up with a thriving restaurant business, 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 the lows of her life in her inimitable charming and irreverent style. She talks about her childhood, the difficulty of her first marriage, and how 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.
Whether she's telling tales of good times or bad, Paula Deen speaks as frankly and intimately in this memoir as few women in the public eye have ever dared. Her story is proof that the good, old-fashioned American dream is alive and kicking, and there is still such a thing as a real-life happy ending.
About the Author
Paula Deen is the bestselling author of
Paula Deen Celebrates!;
Paula DeenandFriends: Living It Up,
Southern Style; The LadyandSons Just Desserts; and other books. She is the host of the Food Network's
Paula's Home Cooking and
Paula's Party, and has appeared on
Good Morning America,
Today,
Fox and Friends, and
The Oprah Winfrey Show. Paula is the founder of The LadyandSons restaurant and co-owner of Uncle Bubba's Oyster House. She lives with her family in Savannah, Georgia.
Sherry Suib Cohen has written twenty-one books for major publishers and was a contributing editor at McCall's, Rosie, New Woman, and Lifetime magazines. She regularly writes for periodicals, including Parade, Family Circle, Redbook, Reader's Digest, and Ladies' Home Journal. Cohen is an award-winning member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and lives with her husband, Larry, in New York City. She makes a great soup.Paula Deen is the bestselling author of Paula Deen Celebrates!; Paula DeenandFriends: Living It Up, Southern Style; The LadyandSons Just Desserts; and other books. She is the host of the Food Network's Paula's Home Cooking and Paula's Party, and has appeared on Good Morning America, Today, Fox and Friends, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Paula is the founder of The LadyandSons restaurant and co-owner of Uncle Bubba's Oyster House. She lives with her family in Savannah, Georgia.
Sherry Suib Cohen has written twenty-one books for major publishers and was a contributing editor at McCall's, Rosie, New Woman, and Lifetime magazines. She regularly writes for periodicals, including Parade, Family Circle, Redbook, Reader's Digest, and Ladies' Home Journal. Cohen is an award-winning member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and lives with her husband, Larry, in New York City. She makes a great soup.
Table of Contents
Contents
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