Chef Paula Deen in the hot pot of political controversy over deal

Sunday, June 3, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 10:16 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

You can’t get much syrupier or chirpier than Paula Deen. She’s the ebullient celebrity queen of Southern cooking, with a buttery drawl, a down-home manner and her own popular TV show on Food Network.

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