Paula Deen American cook

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, cooking show

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 host, restaurateur

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, author

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, actress and Emmy Award

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-winning television personality.

Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia

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, where she owns and operates
The Lady & Sons restaurant with her sons, Jamie

Jamie Deen

Jamie Deen Jamie Deen Jamie Deen (born , in Albany, Georgia, is a chef, restauranteur]], and TV personality.He is widely known as one of the sons of culinary celebrity Paula Deen. With his brother, Bobby, he runs her restaurant, The Lady & Sons, in Savannah, Georgia. Deen also frequently appears on...

 and Bobby Deen

Bobby Deen

Bobby Deen is a television cook, TV personality, and restaurant manager He is best known as one of the sons of Paula Deen, and together with his brother, Jamie, runs her restaurant, The Lady & Sons, in Savannah, Georgia. He also frequently appears on her shows, Paula's Home Cooking and Paula's...

. She has also published five cookbook

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s. Though married in 2004 to Michael Anthony Groover, she continues to use the surname

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 Deen from her first marriage.
Paula Deen was born in Albany, Georgia

Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the...

. As documented in the Food Network special Chefography

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and on her official Web site, both her parents died before she was 23 and an early marriage ended in divorce.