Kimberly Scott October 19, 2008
Category:Featured
Featured Chef:
–True Stories–
My all time personal hero and one of my top ideals that pushed me over the edge and brought me to leaving home and following my dreams to attend Culinary school and become a Chef, is Paula Deen.
Picture taken from Foodnetwork.com
After being divorced she had a slope of depression that hit her, for moved her sons to Savanna,Ga where she started a small business out of her home. She made homemade sandwiches etc, and having her sons go to offices downtown during the lunch hours. This business became known as ‘The Bag Lady.’
From there she was later offered the chance to cook a lunch buffet at a hotel. She got the chance to bring her southern cooking that she learned from her grandmother to life. In 1990 she opened her first restaurant ‘The Lady and Sons,’ it served breakfast, lunch and dinner in a small space that could seat 42 people maximum. It took off and made a huge hit and later in 1995 she moved her restaurant to a bigger space downtown Savanna.
After having watched her life story on the food network through the program Chefography and seeing the whole story and everything that she had actually gone through, I was truly touched and inspired to become something like her one day; To have my own restaurant and become a chef.
