COVER STORY


Paula Deen


EVOLVES, REINVENTS HERSELF AND PROSPERS


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UT SOME SOUTH IN your mouth, y’all,” said the lady with the bouffant silver hair, perfect smile, dimples


and a plumpness attributed to her “dee-licious” cooking. She’s Paula Deen, an icon who has done more to attract tourists to Savannah than any woman in town. She is a Food Network star, a


restaurant and store owner, a bestsell- ing author and a magazine publisher. She has cooked for world leaders and inspired millions during her appear-


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ances on Oprah’s show. And she is a mother of two grown sons, the wife of a tugboat captain and a grand- mother to one, with a second on the way. As down home as shrimp ’n grits and a native of Albany, Georgia, for all of her immeasurable success, she is still endearing, due in part to her good Southern upbringing. If you take the Paula Deen Tour


with Old Town Trolley, you will learn some surprising background trivia about this superstar. As a young beauty, she was a shapely brunette and a cheerleader. She


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