Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'
Apr 17, 2007
Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'
By Paula Deen and Sherry Suib Cohen
This edition: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 04/2007
ISBN: 0743292855
List Price: $25.00
I swear, I would eat all the food this woman set in front of me if I could. She can cook like a house on fire. Just reading about her cooking makes me hungry. Her recipes inspire me to be a better good ol' Southern downhome cook.
Of course, then my entire family would be having coronaries as they hit 400 pounds each. This is not diet food the woman makes.
I've "known" Paula and her food forever it seems. She's always on a show, opening a new restaurant, in the paper or has a great cookbook coming out. But at the same time she seems like a neighbor. Down home friendly.
This book is not a cookbook. This is an autobiography. And my oh my did my eyes open a little. This wonderful Southern Lady had quite a rocky start to get where she is today. While she had a strong family to lean on, she still had to get out on her own and dream, strive, and work very, very hard to get where she is today.
She dealt with having children at what is today considered a young age, a marriage that wasn't the best, relationships later down the line that soured, the world not always seeing a woman as a driving business force, a severe case of agoraphobia, the label of bored housewife looking for a hobby not a career, and so on.
But thru all of this there are three things that stood out.... She succeeded, not just a little bit but succeeded very well, she maintained her Southern Grace, and finally she kept enough sauciness about her to make her a fun and interesting person who anyone might want to pull up a chair and chat with over dessert.
The last thing I'll say about this book... it is honest. Nothing held back. Nothing softened to make her look better to the public. She decided to talk about her life and that she did.
This is her life, as it was and as it is.
Go HERE for an excerpt.
Labels: Autobiography, Southern Cookin'
