Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.

Her parents died before Paula Deen was 23 and an early marriage ended in divorce. You tell them to have chocolate cake and meatloaf for lunch. In 1989 Paula Deen divorced her husband Jimmy Deen to whom Paula Deen had been married since 1965.

Deen resides in Savannah Georgia where Paula Deen owns and operates The Lady & Sons restaurant with her sons Jamie and Bobby Deen. She has publiPaula Deend fourteen cookbooks.