Paula Deen Biography

Paula Deen never dreamed she would become an American icon. Paula took her last $200 reached deep inside her soul and started The Bag Lady a home-based catering company that marked the start of Deen's professional cooking. Paula turned around her life by sharing what she knew best traditional Southern cooking. She opened her first restaurant The Lady and Sons with Bobby and Jamie five years later. The restaurant was a hit and the popularity of Paula and her cooking led to her first cookbook 1998's The Lady and Sons Savannah Country Cookbook. This gave her fans the opportunity to try Paula's recipes at home and led to her first television appearance on QVC. Paula's genuine warmth and folksy personality made her a natural for television. In 1999 USA Today food critic Jerry Shriver named The Lady and Sons International Meal of the Year. 

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