at least forty years ago.

and I hope she loses millions and millions in the lawsuit.

Her comments were made out of pure ignorance and that does not make her a racist piece of shit.

and would never make the remarks she did. I grew up in the South in Florida when racism was rampant, but I did not ever usr the "N" word. So in my opinion, it was pure ignorance.

they show she was quite aware that it was wrong to use racist language.
Bear in mind that while she claims "everybody talked that way" back in the "old days in the South"
she is being sued for racism which occured in 1986.

copy of transcript here:
http://www.npr.org/assets/blogs/codeswitch/pauladeentestimony.pdf

Either I can't find it or I'm searching wrong. Lol.

KNOWS better.. she thought she had a pass because she's so "durned cute & folksy"..

Her schtick is just that..schtick..

I hope she invested wisely and is well set & that her "boys" can find work on their own now..

Name me one person who hasn't used a racial, ethnic or sexist word at one time or another?

the black servant wedding?

continued and recent use of N-word in jokes?

did you use these terms frequently, as frequently as she did?

You lost me on that one.

I had to Google the reference. It came from her memoir.

Along with these incidents from her youth, Deen also wrote with a surprising lack of self-awareness about a situation that occurred after she began her television career when she wanted to make a recipe she called the “Sambo Burger” on her show:

“I’ll never forget the day I was doing hamburgers, and I was cookin’ what ended up being called a Beau Burger, which was topped with a fried egg. Actually I wanted to call it a Sambo Burger. It came about when this motorcycle-driving, long-haired lawyer named Sam told me about his favorite little hamburger joint owned by a guy named Beau. When Sam was out tooling along on his cycle, he’d stop off for the best burger in town, topped with a fried egg, some melted cheese, a load of grilled onions—out of this world! One day, Sam was on my set because we were doing a show about motorcycles, and we were standin’ around talking about these burgers and I told him, ‘Sam I am going to do that burger on the show. We’ll call it after you—the Sambo Burger. You know—Sam, Beau. Sounds great, doesn’t it?’”

Deen claimed her producers forced her to rename the burger.

“My producers said no—I had to find another name, because some people associated the name with an old children’s book that was insulting to black people,” wrote Deen. “So we called it a Beau.”

you seem to be very reluctant to come to any conclusions about this.

I already said what I thought, that's she's a product of her time and place of birth. I don't know what is in this woman's heart, but neither do other people. BTW, I'm not even a fan of hers, particularly since she hid her diabetes for 3 years until she had a deal with a pharmaceutical company to advertise their diabetes medicine.

are you excusing it because she didn't mean any harm?

did George Wallace mean any harm?

you make it sound like racism is a victimless thing.

Key here is "past". The question is how long in the past. People do evolve. BTW, don't compare something said by some TV cook with George Wallace.

I'm from the south: born & raised in Charleston, SC, which is pretty fucking close to savannah, where this trainwreck asshole is from.

I'm only 37, far younger than Ms Deeeeeeeeeen, and *I* know that Sambo is a derogatory name for black people.

Shit, growing up, there was a Sambo's restaurant down the street from where I lived. My elementary school had copies of Little Black Sambo in the library.

Southerners *know* what Sambo means, and what it refers to. Especially Southerners of Ms Deeeeeeeeeens' age.

So, being only 37, and having spent the first 25 years of my life in Charleston, SC and it's surroundings, the idea that someone hearing "Sambo" and thinking "Oh, but it's just a mix of the name Sam and Beau" is bullshit.

Ms Deeeeeeeeeen is trying to pull someone's leg by relaying that story as the "aw shucks" reason for the naming of the burger.

She's full of shit.

Here is the Little Black Sambo book that was in my school library. Tell me Ms Dean didn't know this was racist, or that the name implied a stereotypical southern African American


fucking lying racist pig. I'm glad her nasty ass is off the airwaves. She made me embarrassed to be a Southener, with her bullshit sugary sweet exaggerated Yawwl Drawl and buttah buttah buttah. Fuck her. I hope she rots

As for the other allegations, innocent until proven guilty. People will say many things if they think they can get money out of it. If the allegations prove to be true, then Paula and her brother should pay the damages.

She didn't butter them up enough....

Her comments really creamed her career

(I know...awful puns using her favorite ingredients!)

I didnt even bother to watch the second. Theres no excuse for this racist trash.

Link please.

Unfortunately this apology is not much better.

She said she is going to continue to do good for good people. I wonder what that means.

Bubutterbye!!!

Try to stay on topic.

Thank you for showing me the light.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

that her words were hurtful. She did not heed them. Kudos to the Food Network for the swift action

Everyone makes mistakes...and someday it will be you...show the kind of forgiveness you would want when it's your turn.

she's a straight up racist

there's a price to be paid for what she said.. Her contract is not being renewed.

she said it..she paid the price

You will make a mistake someday...I promise.

I hope you get forgiveness that you can't extend to her.

I don't cook like her, never liked her smarmy/folksy/cutesy demeanor, and she'll manage without my anonymous "forgiveness"..

I have made many mistakes..real mistakes.. and I admit to them immediately and have never lacked for support of my friends.. but mine were just mistakes.. not racist slurs..

She's a PUBLIC figure who reveled in the adoration/success/fame/money and she undid herself..


You go ahead and forgive her all day long.. Bless your heart

and the people I unintentionally hurt forgave me.

Just returning the favor.

Forgiveness is a wonderful thing, and if she sinned against me, I would most certainly forgive her, as I'm sure are many people that she did intentionally offend, forgave her.

Consequences in the free market are also a wonderful thing, and it seems as though the free market is "just returning the favor"...

fuck her.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/19/paula-deen-uses-the-n-word-7-shocking-details-from-her-deposition.html

" you can't ask for forgiveness if you're not willing to give it"

she's a racist pig and she's reaping the rewards. tough.

Wow...while she may have said racist words in the past, I don't think she's in the league of the KKK.

You really are filled with anger over this.

A few days ago you had mini war with MJ b/o insinuations you were a racist and you were pissed cause it wasn't true.

I think that's how PD feels right now.

Forgiveness is a privilege, and she's not come even close to earning it.

No more. She is crass and vile

Right now she is refusing to hand over a video tape, to the court, that is damn disgusting

Or Hot Cross-Burning Buns?

Or Baby Back of the Bus Ribs? (h/t Harry Shearer)

Or White Supremacist Bean Soup? (my own contribution to #PaulasBestDishes)

If everyone got penalized for every racist, sexist or ethnic slur they might have uttered in their lifetime, there wouldn't be too many people employed.

I don't know the woman, I don't regularly watch her program, although I have her first book (I have a collection of cook books); but I'm against burning at the stake someone because they may have said something inappropriate at some point in their lifetime. To me the question is whether she has evolved since she used that term.

Nt

according to the NYTimes:

"Ms. Deen has managed to offend even her most uncritical fans before, most recently in January 2012 when she announced she had Type 2 diabetes on the same day she endorsed the diabetes drug Victoza and a lucrative collaboration with Novo Nordisk, the drug’s manufacturer. Because she had built her career on a no-holds-barred approach to sugar and fat (creating recipes like a cheeseburger patty sandwiched between two doughnuts and a Better than Sex cake made with cake mix, pudding mix, and heavy cream), she was roundly criticized for encouraging an unhealthy diet for others, hiding her illness and then trying to profit from it."

She knew that she had diabetes for 3 years and still kept cooking with tons of fat and sugar. She only announced her illness when she had secured a contract with a pharmaceutical company.

I'm not a fan of this woman, but it seems that people are piling on for something she said in the past. What I would like to know is if she still feels that way about AA.

BTW, the Freepers are rejoicing. Apparently she's a Democrat.

According to this article, she allegedly used the racial slur as recent as six years ago:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/paula-deen-racial.php

She did not expressly deny letting that word slip when describing her "plantation" wedding idea, when asked about it in the deposition. Reading the deposition in full is really helpful in understand why people are angry and/or disappointed in her.

"Self-inflicted Bar-B-Que."

"She cooked her own goose."

"Exit stage left."

I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.

She's a racist piece of shit.

n/t

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I bet every show producer is having staff go through huge amounts of film footage and background clips.

I knew she was probably a racist when I saw her show about breakfast. She spent a great deal of time showing how to segregate the egg whites from the colored yolks and the finished it all off with some down home biscuits and slavey.

Most of her food looks dangerous. But this one I found on-line and liked the ingredients. Similarly with Richard Wagner. Hate the hateful man, not his music.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/chicken-scaloppini-recipe/index.html

I know that by now it's become a running joke, but I would cut some of the butter. One stick would be more than enough. A lb. of butter is way too much for a lb. of linguini.

here's a much better, much healthier recipe.

http://2savorypalates.blogspot.com/2010/12/chicken-scallopini-with-sage-butter_17.html

But I happen to love all the other ingredients and seem to always have them. I also substituted bacon for pancetta.

Voila!

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Far better tasting. Bacon may do in a pinch, but if you're planning to do it ahead of time, try it once with the pancetta. You may also try it with prosciutto. You'll notice the difference.



Forgot to add, your pic looks delicious.

I will try pancetta. I never have. It's the artichoke hearts that got me.

It does look delicious. Aside from reducing the amount of butter, I may change the heavy cream for half and half. A quick reduction should thicken it enough.

Pancetta is Italy's response to bacon, but IMO its higher quality an better tasting for cooking.

Rule of thumb is to lighten up heavy dairy recipes.

Or more, if you're serving 6. Insane.

sometime in the future when the dust settles. It's not like they can't be aware that she's quite an unpredictable firecracker. On one version of her previous shows where she had celebrity guests, it looked like she was intoxicated quite often. There's a YouTube video of her in front of a crowd where she looks drunk and is pulling her pants down. I've watched some of the documentary type things about her show, and she's cussing up a storm. Not just cute little granny cuss words, but full on vulgar eyebrow raising cussing (these were the outtakes. They obviously were edited out). On the show where she looks intoxicated, it seriously looks like she's grabbing at the private parts of her male guests and she hoots and hollers at them while she's doing it. It's not like Food Network couldn't see that she was a loose cannon, and they still invested in her.

Don't get me wrong, I think that FN did the right thing here. However crude she is, this is definitely going too far. It's just that she does have quite a following, so I'm wondering if they'll feel pressured to bring her back.

This with that Nigella Lawson domestic violence incident and all that publicity -- it isn't a good week for celebrity chefs!

Never cared for her in the first place. Her cooking looks revolting tbh.