Paula Deen's announcement that she has Type 2 Diabetes seems to have kicked off a tempest in a Southern teapot, with some sides becoming so impassioned that they compare the legendary chef Julia Childs to Paula (umm, excuse me, but Julia created a new food culture by bringing "fancy dishes" to the public and making them memorable...and Paula, well, she has a lot of Southern charm and loves an abundance of butter).
On Team Paula's side: syndicated columnist Froma Harrop, who romantically writes "Paula Deen honors a cooking heritage nurtured by the land. When it comes to vegetables — and Deen does do vegetables — the picks are turnip, mustard and collard greens growing in the local Georgia soil. And she adopts no dainty indirection about where the meat comes from, referring to the "big old ham" as "him," not "it." Deen would seem a hero to the locavore and slow-cooking (though not vegan) movements: The first prizes local ingredients, and the second, traditional foods."
Oh, that must account for the oozing butter, cheese, and heaping handfuls of brown sugar that seem to adorn every dish: it's tradition!
On Team Food Police's side: The fact that diabetes is rising - and that Paula did indeed make a practice of advocating that viewers pile on the saturated fat with her tempting recipes.
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