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Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' - Paula H. Deen, Sherry Suib Cohen
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 story (a single mom with two teenage sons started a brown-bag lunch business with $200 and wound up with a thriving... show more
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...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780743292856 (0743292855)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 287
Edition language: English
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leaning on the side of wonder
leaning on the side of wonder rated it
3.0
3 stars is generous. More like 2.5 only b/c I have fond affection for her first cookbook & numerous memories of eating in her restaurant at it's first location on Congress Street BEFORE she ever hit it big.
 Stacia in Progress
Stacia in Progress rated it
0.0
*read before the controversy* Rating removed but review remains unaltered.I walked by this on the library shelf last year and thought to myself that it might be fun to see what goes on behind the scenes with this "momma" cook.What an interesting peek into the world of someone that spent many years a...
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