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 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.
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.