Paula Deen Live Tickets ? Paula Deen Takes Down-Home Cooking on the Road

Paula Deen has been charming audiences at home on her four Food Network cooking shows and teaching at-home chefs how to cook up some Southern-fried food in her best-selling cookbooks, and now the celebrity chef is hitting the road on a book tour. USA Today reports that Paula Deen’s latest cookbook, Paula Deen’s Savannah Style (Simon & Schuster), recently arrived on shelves. Fans with <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/paula-deen-live-tickets/”>Paula Deen Live tickets</a> from <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/”>StubHub.com</a> can hear the down-to-earth star talk about her latest book when her tour touches down in cities across the country.

Paula Deen strayed from her usual recipe book on her latest authorial adventure, as CMT.com reports that Paula Deen’s Savannah Style is a coffee-table book. Deen worked on the book, which highlights elements of Southern style, with her personal assistant and creative director Brandon Branch. Deen told CMT.com that music makes a big difference in creating a home, saying, “Music is so important to life, I think. It’s like food. It feels another part of your body. You know, you can be feeling down in the dumps or think you can’t move and a great song will come on. And before you know it, you’re jiving around to that song and feeling a whole lot better!”

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Paula Deen is a fan of country music! Country star Trisha Yearwood recently stopped by Deen’s show to make a Southern favorite, hush puppies, while the Zac Brown Band paid her a visit right when their hit song “Chicken Fried” was sailing up the charts. Deen may be hobnobbing with country stars and touring the nation in support of her latest book, but she told CMT.com that she still appreciates life’s simple pleasures. “I think the simple things take us all back to the time where we felt safe and secure. Mom and Daddy worried about everything—we had no cares. It just takes us back to those days, what we all refer to as ‘the good ol’ days,” Deen explained.

Paula Deen first entered the food world in June 1989, when she launched a home-based meal delivery service called The Bag Lady in Savannah, Ga. with the help of her sons Jamie and Bobby and just a $200 budget. Deen’s official website reports that after working as a chef at a Savannah Best Western she opened her first restaurant, The Lady and Sons, in Savannah, and it became so popular that she released her very first cookbook, The Lady and Sons Savannah Country Cookbook, in 1997. As idyllic as Deen’s story seems, the television host and author only embarked on her successful career after she found herself struggling to cope with the death of her parents, the dissolution of her marriage to her high school sweetheart (the father of her two sons) and a battle with agoraphobia.

Two years after Paula Deen released her first cookbook, USA Today food critic Jerry Shriver hailed The Lady and Sons International Meal of the Year. In 2002, Paula’s Home Cooking premiered on the Food Network and she continued to sell cookbooks and repeatedly land on the New York Times bestselling cookbooks list while creating more of a television presence. Paula’s Party, Deen’s second show, premiered on the Food Network in 2006 and she currently has four shows on the network, with the most recent being Paula’s Best Dishes. At-home chefs can now even bring a piece of Paula with them into their kitchens, as Meyer Corp launched the line of Paula Deen signature cookware, bakeware, kitchen tools and accessories in 2008. There really is nothing Paula Deen can’t do!