Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'
 

Paula Deen Memoir

by Paula Deen

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... (read more)

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Lorie W.
  • Rated 4 stars

What an awesome lady! She tells everything (the good, the bad, and the ugly). Her book is hard to put down.

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Victoria T
  • Rated 2 stars

Well, y'all, I'm sad to say reading this book drove me a bit bonkers. (Michael would interject, at this point, that the drive is very short)! Paula's story telling style is similar to the way I think and talk, which is a confusing bit of past, present and future within the same paragraph. When I read I like a certain amount of chronological flow and you can throw in flashback, or foreshadowing, but this book was too disjointed for me. I did enjoy her recipes at the end of the chapters and...

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  • dawniemom

    dawniemom said:

    Paula Deen's writing style is just as friendly and warm as she comes across on tv. You are immediately felt welcome into her life, and she walks through some very difficult times of her life with you, making no effort to sugarcoat things. I love this book.

    posted Friday, May 23 2008
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