A really interesting piece by Kim Severson (excellent writer) in today’s New York Times: Paula Deen’s Cook Tells of Slights, Steeped in History. Severson obviously spent hours trying to understand the world of Dora Charles, “the queen of Deen kitchens”…
In my original post about the Paula Deen controversy, I wrote: Even though we could find plenty of 66-year old Southerners who never used the N-word and many of Deen’s age who joined civil rights protests as early as the…
I said a couple of days that I probably wouldn’t post again anytime soon about the Paula Deen controversies, but there was one detail that had been nagging at me. Why, a mere week from the expiration of the current…
I hope this will be my last post for awhile about the recent Paula Deen controversy. But today it seems worthwhile to note a few of the journalistic takes on the evolving controversy. Here I’m just going to cite three…
I certainly wasn’t the first journalist to write about Paula Deen and The Lady & Sons, but I think I was the first to write about the ambitious move from the small location on Congress Street to the much larger…
Local filmmaker Michael Jordan’s “You’ve Got to Come to Savannah” “You’ve Gotta Come to Savannah” won the Visit Savannah contest to create a YouTube promotional video. I like it. I especially like the way that Jordan includes so many small…
