paula deen

If you are making plans to visit Nashville anytime soon hold off until the end of the month. Paula Deen has announced that she'll be opening her new Family Kitchen in Opry Mills Mall.

Since we're all cooking at home more often these days, here's a recipe to try. It's Chad's Paula Deen-inspired recipe for Southern Fried Chicken.

Do you buy it?

Despite her efforts to save face -- with not one but two apology videos -- that deposition stemming from a lawsuit which revealed her casual use of the n-word (as well as other seemingly racist actions) has cost Paula Deen her job at the Food Network.

Further continuing the coverage of strange things from the web, how about we highlight Paula Deen.  She  is no stranger to Internet memes: the Southern fried TV chef has been the butt of many a butter joke on the web. A new Deen-obsessed image blog called Paula Deen Riding Things is deliciously bizarre. The Photoshopped works feature a sunglasses-wearing, wine glass-toting Paula riding atop a vari