<p>Here’s how she will make her comeback.</p>
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I’m really afraid that he’s going to find out my number and leave a nasty voicemail. :(</p>
<p>“I don’t think so Emilybee. The book was at number one on amazon when it was dropped. That is the opposite of the market at work.”</p>
<p>According to what I read today in the NYT it reached #1 after a rush from her fans, but the publisher said without Walmart, Target selling any PD stuff it’s problematic for them. Clearly a business decision on the lack of profitability. </p>
<p>PD can either self publish or find another publisher.</p>
<p>“As far as the polling, with the range of buffoons and incompetents running for mayor, people probably support Weiner because they are intimately familiar with him.”</p>
<p>They also might like him because he was a very effective Congressperson and think he will do a good job as mayor.</p>
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<p>Very true but don’t forget that she is also “fat” and “old”, both completely unforgiveable sins for white women in the public eye. Add that to the fact that she’s uneducated and obviously unsophisticated and it’s no wonder the media is having so much fun whipping up the masses.</p>
<p>If NY elects AW mayor I will lose whatever respect I ever had for the people of that city… and I really like NYC.</p>
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Good Lord, please tell me this is a hyperbole.</p>
<p>This is a woman who made some very misguided steps in her life and is very apologetic and obviously remorseful.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how we “let her off the hook,” but if we do not let her off the hook and continue to call her names and take away her life, I’m not sure how we teach people to change. </p>
<p>She should just self-publish and do a memoir about this and about how she changed and how she changed her organization. She ought to be given an opportunity to make amends, not just thrown out with the trash. I would suggest she endow some scholarships to the CIA for African Americans, as a start.</p>
<p>She needs some guidance on how to make it right. </p>
<p>JMO.</p>
<p>I have been reading from some of the documents pertaining to the case. They are really over the top, and it would be ironic if the plaintiff didnt win after all this, but I think she won’t. But she did achieve her goal of destroying Paula’s brand.</p>
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<p>No fan of Paula or her cooking style, but am a fan of growth and change, even if it was initiated in an unpleasant way.</p>
<p>Who knows when or how she may have changed? She has done a lot for black people in her community, even according to President Carter. It may be that she had some epiphany in her own soul that caused her to devote resources to doing good for people.</p>
<p>Her cousin speaks kindly of her, past and present [The</a> Marietta Daily Journal - Marietta cousin defends television s Paula Deen](<a href=“http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/22956891/article-Marietta-cousin-defends-television-s-Paula-Deen?instance=home_viewed]The”>http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/22956891/article-Marietta-cousin-defends-television-s-Paula-Deen?instance=home_viewed)</p>
<p>And, we can hope, Paula Dean (as opposed to “Paula Dean”, who died) will continue to good work in her community.</p>
<p>Its Paula DEEN (both the woman and the brand). No relation to Jimmy, of sausage fame.</p>
<p>At least one company has the guts to stick by this woman!</p>
<p>[Paula</a> Deen’s magazine contract will continue, Birmingham-based publisher Hoffman Media announces | al.com](<a href=“http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/06/paula_deens_magazine_contract.html]Paula”>Paula Deen's magazine contract will continue, Birmingham-based publisher Hoffman Media announces - al.com)</p>
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<p>We have known the Hoffman family personally (went to church with them before moving out of state), and I know that Phyllis, Eric’s mom and the founder of Hoffman Media (I remember when they started around her kitchen table!!! But that’s another story) is good friends with Paula Deen. These are good people who are just trying to do the right thing! NOBODY is perfect. I know that I certainly am not. I am proud that Hoffman Media have come out in support of Paula.</p>
<p>Sure Paula Deen put out some ridiculously decadent recipes, but nobody forced anyone to cook or eat those things. She was entertaining to watch on her shows, but if you did not want to watch her nobody MADE you do that. Some people here are acting like Paula Deen had done something personally to them. I don’t get it at all.</p>
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<p>Paula Deen made herself rich by promoting and peddling over-the-top, unhealthful, sugar and fat-drenched food. I view this aspect of her “brand” with the same disdain that I view tobacco companies that get rich promoting and peddling unhealthful cigarettes. So I greet her fall as the same sort of good news as if a tobacco company had somehow wrecked itself and lost popularity.</p>
<p>Nobody was forced to cook or eat her food and nobody was forced to start smoking. But both activities prey on peoples’ weaknesses and addictions in order to sell their products and in so doing to damage their customers’ health.</p>
<p>I never watched her show or bought her books, so the whole episode doesn’t directly have any affect on me either way. But I’m always cheered by some event that will likely have the effect of promoting public health and reducing health care costs for all of us.</p>
<p>Simply ridiculous, coureur. Paula Deen’s recipes did not “prey” on people’s “weaknesses” and “addiction”. And to think that Paula Deen’s cookin is as detrimental as the tobacco industry is plain looney.</p>
<p>Yeah, coureur. Equating a woman who promoted old fashioned, albeit not low fat, recipes and who employed many, many people in her business empires with the tobacco industry?? Seriously?? That is beyond ridiculous. Paula Deen’s recipes might be delicious and decadent, but they are not clinically addictive. The same cannot be said of tobacco and nicotine.</p>
<p>" But I’m always cheered by some event that will likely have the effect of promoting public health and reducing health care costs for all of us."</p>
<p>I don’t think the Paula Dean story is going to make anyone change the way they are eating.</p>
<p>Sorry, coureur, another nay vote on that assertion. Paula Deen’s cooking and recipes reflect her deep southern roots. They cooked with butter and fat down Savannah way years before Paula Deen came along, and years since. Lots of this healthy, low-fat, no transfats, this is good for you vs this is not food stuff is (historically speaking), pretty new (certainly newer than the findings on tobacco). </p>
<p>Could she have adopted/incorporated/introduced more healthy cooking and foods into her persona/empire? Sure, and she actually has in the past few years (since the diabetes thing). But should she have been legally or even morally required to do that? Heck no! </p>
<p>Don’t watch her, don’t buy her books, don’t eat at her restaurants. No one is forcing her customers. Eating southern fried foods and buttery mashed potatoes is a choice, not an addiction like tobacco. Too weak to resist? Well, that’s on you. She isn’t in the business of promoting health; she’s a southern cook.</p>
<p>I have mixed feelings. I’m not a fan of Paula Deen. She seems, yes, to me, to promote an unhealthy lifestyle. As Coureur pointed out. And she seems rather, shall we say, insensitive to the race issue. Even after her apology, she seems like she has a ways to go. But the corporations that are so quick to pull their sponsorships, as if they are so moral and care so much about the public good, kind of seems ridiculous too.</p>
<p>Yes, she emphasizes butter and etc; yes it’s her little jokey joke. It’s not like everyone cooked with health in mind (all health, all the time) until she came and forced that gooey cake on us. Are some suggesting she somehow has a magic attraction that lures us to make these recipes? You’d have to close most bakeries and plenty of restaurants, if it’s all “their fault.”</p>
<p>Anyone here ever seen the CC recipe threads that occasionally crop up? PD didn’t invent the interest in rich foods.</p>