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In 1997 Paula Hiers Deen self-published Favorite Recipes of The Lady and Her Friends producing only 5,000 copies and selling them at her Savannah restaurant, The Lady & Son´s. This collection of over 380 recipes from Paula´s recipe box, with contributions from family and friends harkens back to a classic church cookbook in which neighbors share their best recipes. Included are treasured family recipes, quick and simple recipes, and many Southern classics.. Paula hand selected each recipe, created and curated each chapter and shared personal anecdotes for the illustrator to recreate. This complete book was never available in the trade market. In honor of the 20th anniversary of its publication this facsimile edition makes this wonderfully quirky edition available to the trade market.

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PAULA DEEN, Culinary icon and queen of Southern cooking, Deen is a self-made success story who learned the secrets of Southern cooking from her grandmother. Deen´s first business, The Bag Lady, started her successful career and led to the opening of her first restaurant, The Lady and Sons, with her two sons Bobby and Jamie five years later. In addition to her success on TV and with her restaurant, Deen is a two-time Emmy award winner and the author of 15 cookbooks that have sold more than 11,000,000 copies. Paula´s magazine Cooking with Paula Deen celebrates it´s 10th year and has over 3 million readers. In 2014, Deen launched the Paula Deen Network, an interactive digital cooking network that combines cooking, lifestyle and game shows with great recipes, meal-planning tools and more. Paula´s social media fan base exceeds six million strong.

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