Paula Deen (of Food Network TV fame) is coming to Sacramento this Friday, February 3, 2012. She'll be speaking at the Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street, Sacramento at 7:00 p.m. Check out the January 30, 2012 Sacramento Bee interview with Paula Deen by Chris Macias, "Q&A: Food Network's Paula Deen coming to town -- with tales to tell."
Have you seen Paula Deen's recipe for "fried butter balls?" The recipe calls for two sticks of butter. Does that bring back memories of southern cooking or Elvis Presley's favorite sandwich of friend peanut butter and jelly? See, Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich Recipe. Most high-end restaurants cook with lots of butter.
You might want to check out Paula Deen's recipes for butter cake and butter cookies. Why butter? With roots in Southern cooking, what places butter over olive oil? When I think of Southern cooking, it's Sicily and Crete's olive oil. But Southern American cooking is also about butter. How else would one make roux Louisiana style except with browning flour and butter to make gravy?
During the talk, Paula Deen will share her positive approach to diabetes and how she isn't going to let the 2008 diabetes diagnosis stop her from enjoying her life. In the past when she was on the Dr. Oz show, she finally revealed she was a smoker trying to quit, but she didn't reveal for three years that she had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Ironically, she has partnered with the diabetes drug manufacturer, Novo Nordisk. If you attend the presentation, it will focus on a positive approach to managing diabetes. Paula Deen is known on TV as the queen of Southern cooking. Once Dr. Oz asked her what was the one item she couldn't live without, and she replied on the TV program that it was her deep fryer. As Dr. Oz gave her a look of surprise, the audience chuckled.
Paula Deen, in the Sacramento Bee interview by Chris Macias, also told the reporter that a big announcement will be coming in the next few days. Basically, will it be about her 2008 diabetes diagnosis and her partnering with the diabetes drug manufacturer, Novo Nordisk? Or will the announcement be about sharing her positive approach to diabetes--that you can enjoy life and control her diabetes?
Check out the interview with the Sacramento Bee to read about what Deen says she eats most of the time, in spite of her TV reputation for cooking with lots of butter. In her interview with The Bee, Deen talked about how she really eats most of the year and the reputation she has for using too much butter.
If you attend the talk, you may get the chance to ask Deen some questions since she will be taking questions from the audience. She'll also demonstrate more Southern cooking and talk about her experiences on Food Network. Check out the Sacramento Bee on Wednesday because there will be an article on Deen's cooking with butter. In today's Sacramento Bee is another interview with Deen. Ironically she says she doesn't eat that many fried foods. But she does wish she could eat fried chicken and a fried pork chop in moderation, but she doesn't eat it every day, she reports in the Sacramento Bee article.
Paula Deen isn't the only TV cooking star who used lots of butter on the shows. Julia Child did when she demonstrated cooking omelettes or various types of French-style cooking. If you're into nutrition, you wonder why so many chefs emphasize so many dairy products such as sour cream or cheese in cooking instead of pureeing cashews to make salad dressing or pureeing lentils to make gravy instead of dairy added to products. Other chefs add tapioca starch. Some use corn starch to make creamy dressings, sauces, soups, and gravy.
Surprisingly, Deen says she doesn't eat lots of fried foods. Maybe that's what made the audience laugh and chuckle when she said she couldn't live without her deep fryer. It must have been a joke.
The question for foodies is whether Deen is stereotyped on TV for cooking just Southern style rather than exploring other types of cooking? Would you ever find her exploring the raw vegan foods track, green vegetable juicing, or doing a show on cooking Asian foods? She admits to eating Thai food in restaurants and loving that food. Is it a custom of chefs to stay close to their early food habits, traditions, and roots?
Check out the interview in today's Sacramento Bee and in Wednesday's food section. Paula Deen certainly has tales to tell, and she's coming live to Sacramento on Friday, if you want to buy tickets. If interested in her live presentation. Check out the Tickets.com website.
Two Weeks Ago Paula Deen Shared Her Type 2 Diabetes Announcent Publicly
Just a few weeks ago, celebrity chef and Food Network star Paula Deen announced to the public that she has teamed with drugmaker Novo Nordisk to launch a program that aims to help people live with Type 2 diabetes and promote a Novo diabetes drug. Deen has Type 2 diabetes and takes Victoza, a once-daily noninsulin injection. According to an Associated Press article by Jessica Kiss, "Paula Deen to Endorse Diabetes Drug," a link on that site opens on promotional materials site for the drug. Recipes and tips can be found here.
One surprise was hearing the announcement that Paula Deen is diabetic with type 2 diabetes. See, Headlines: Paula Deen endorses diabetes drug - CBS News Video. Check out Headlines: Paula Deen endorses diabetes drug - CBS News Video.
View the video: Paula Deen's Diabetes Announcement Begins New "Healthy" Recipe. Last time when she was on the Dr. Oz show she admitted she wanted to stop smoking, and when asked what she couldn't live without related to cooking, her reply on that show was her "deep fryer." See, Bites - Paula Deen: Diabetes diagnosis won't change how I cook.
Also check out, Butter Connoisseur Paula Deen Admits Type 2 Diabetes Battle, and see, TV chef Paula Deen touts diabetes drug along with high-fat southern cooking. According to that Washington Post article, Paula Deen, the Southern belle of butter and heavy cream, continues to dish up deep-fried cheesecake and other high-calorie, high-fat recipes on TV.
According to the Washington Post article, she explained that she isn’t changing the comfort cooking that made her a star, though it isn’t clear how much of it she’ll continue to eat while she promotes health-conscious recipes along with a diabetes drug she’s endorsing for a Danish company.
The issue in nutrition is that when you eat just a piece of cake and not the whole cake, the sugar changes your brain so that it's addictive and you crave the whole cake. Some can and some can't resist the whole cake. The same goes for saturated dairy fats such as cheese and butter. The four most addictive foods are sugar, chocolate, dairy, and meat.
How Food May Change Your Brain
When you eat just one piece of cake, chocolate, or one cookie, the hormones in your brain change in such a way that it becomes harder to resist the next piece. When you eat a fatty potato chip, can you eat just one? Or do you crave the entire package? Check out the site, Most shocking unhealthy soups in America.
Also see the articles, What Sugar Does to Your Brain | OlsonND.com and How does food affect our brain? | Psychology Today. If food didn't affect the brain as well as the sounds and smells or view of any given restaurant as well as the food and the service quality, would anyone come back again for more? Check out these reports from the Atlantic Wire about a drop in meat consumption and a Gallup survey showing slightly fewer Americans were obese in 2011.
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