Paula Deen — the queen of high-calorie, Southern cooking — is about to come clean and confess that she can’t eat her own dishes anymore because she has diabetes.
The Georgia-born chef — a Food Network star who has written five best-selling cookbooks — has been trying to keep her condition a secret, even after the National Enquirer reported in April that she has Type 2 diabetes, which is often associated with fatty foods and obesity.
Sources say Deen, 64, who never addressed the diabetes question, has worked out a multimillion-dollar deal to be the spokeswoman for a pharmaceutical company and endorse the drug she is taking.
Novartis, the drug company she is said to be working for, declined to respond to Flash’s questions, as did Deen’s agent and Deen herself.
“Paula Deen is going to have to reposition herself now that she has diabetes,” said one source. “She’s going to have to start cooking healthier recipes. She can’t keep pushing mac and cheese and deep-fried Twinkies when she is hawking a diabetes drug.”
Last August, “No Reservations” host Anthony Bourdain called Deen “the worst, most dangerous person to America” and said she should “think twice before telling an already obese nation that it’s OK to eat food that is killing us.”
Deen replied, “You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills ... It wasn’t that long ago that I was struggling to feed my family, too.”
Her son is dating April from Eastbound and Down. :drool
until the emphysema kicks in
I don't know who I hate more, Paula Deen or Guy Fieri.Rachel Ray
I don't think I've used butter in like 2 years if not more. I use either I Can't Believe It's Not Butter or Country Crock
Yeah, I do find it particularly disgusting that she's going to shill some Diabetes medication now.
I don't think Rachael Ray is that bad. Sure, she is a bubbly idiot who doesn't know how to cook, but I don't think she is damaging America and my soul like Deen and Fieri.
Edit: nevermind.
give me a fucking break with all the "killing america" pussy handwringing
anyone who takes life or health advice from a television cook is a goddamned moron, anyway
I don't think I've used butter in like 2 years if not more. I use either I Can't Believe It's Not Butter or Country Crock
give me a fucking break with all the "killing america" pussy handwringing
if you don't like her shit, don't cook it or eat it, it is pretty much that simple
anyone who takes life or health advice from a television cook is a goddamned moron, anyway
i think i have seen approximately two episodes of her various shows, and don't much care for her downhome "charm" (i know enough southern women who wear that mask in public to know it's a thin veneer of bullshit) so i don't really have a "side" here, but bourdain's full of shit - anyone sucking down enough cigarettes per day to develop snappers as brown as his pretty much forfeits their right to sermonize about healthy lifestyles
I don't think I've used butter in like 2 years if not more. I use either I Can't Believe It's Not Butter or Country Crock
That shit is way worse than butter. Transfats galore. It's not that butter that gave her diabetes.
Shit's terrible, though. Guys, for the love of God, use real butter. Look at the French, the eat gobs of eat, comparatively speaking and don't suffer the same health problems as we do.I don't think I've used butter in like 2 years if not more. I use either I Can't Believe It's Not Butter or Country Crock
That shit is way worse than butter. Transfats galore. It's not that butter that gave her diabetes.
Country Crock doesn't have any transfat
Country Crock is great.
They have a line of mashed potatoes that are pretty damn good if you don't have time to make them by hand. Better than that boxed shit.