Paula Deen Shocked By Lack Of Public Support Following Diabetes Announcement + 20 Bacon Recipes [View all]

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Two unrelated HuffPo articles from their front page. I just thought they went well together.
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Chef and television personality Paula Deen was blindsided by the public backlash following the announcement that she has type 2 diabetes. But what has the butter-loving star shocked more than anything? None of her famous foodie friends have shown her one ounce of support.

Yet some believe that other chefs have remained silent because Deen kept quiet about her illness for years.

"The amount of chefs that would have come forward with public statements of support and sympathy would have been overwhelming if it wasn't for the fact that Paula hid her diagnosis for three years," a top food publicist tells me. "To only tell the truth when you have locked in a paid spokesperson deal for a non-insulin medication is just too toxic for anyone to want to be involved with."

The news not only surprised Deen's fans and colleagues, it also surprised her own network, which had no knowledge of her disease prior to the public announcement.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/paula-deen-diabetes-announcement-celebrity-chefs-support_n_1224454.html


20 Mouth Watering Bacon Recipes For Breakfast, Lunch Or Dinner

Bacon is one of those few ingredients that is appropriate any time of the day. You surely won't come across a breakfast diner that does not offer -- if not feature -- bacon strips on its menu. Bacon makes an appearance around noon too, in BLTs and Cobb salads. Come dinner time, we have recipes that work great with this cured meat -- think pasta carbonara and baked potatoes. It is even showing up on the dessert menu, in such creations as bacon-maple sundaes and bacon-frosted cupcakes.

People just never get tired of eating bacon. You'd be hard pressed to find a home where bacon was left over from a meal and had to be thrown away. Nope. Normally, bacon is the first item to disappear from the table. People count who had how many strips, making sure that they weren't cheated out of any of their prized pieces.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/bacon-dishes_n_1224760.html