Color me shocked, ya’ll!
Being from the South it’s pretty much a given that I love me some Paula Deen. How can you not like this bubbly, plus-size celebrity cook? She’s like your Mimi with a magazine and a tv show. In fact, MY Mimi (and my momma) love her so much that the three of us are going to the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertainment Show this weekend, in hopes to catch a glimpse of the great one.
Georgia-born Deen is known for her rich and unhealthy Southern-style cooking which started out as a catering service which her sons Jamie and Bobbie delivered from their home and has grown into her own range of deserts, restaurants and star of her own show on the Food Network.
According to the National Enquirer, friends of the 64-year-old said she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes several years ago, yet continues to tout exactly the type of butter or sugar rich high-fat recipes that bring on diabetes. She is said to be under doctor’s orders to steer clear of the foods.
Friends say she kept her illness secret to avoid being thought a hypocrite as she sells us recipes like The Lady’s Brunch Burger. Recipe after the jump….
Listen, just because Paula has the sugar…does not mean that she can’t continue to bring us dangerously unhealthy foods. No one eats like this everyday. Most of use look to her cookbooks and magazine for holidays or family events only.
The really sucky thing about this is that she can’t enjoy the amazing sugary/fatty concoctions she makes anymore. Making a burger on a Krispy Kreme and then not being able to eat it must be one of Dante’s levels of hell.
