Queen of Southern cuisine Paula Deen was a late bloomer. The blue-eyed belle was too busy socializin' to fry steaks, boil sweet potatoes and roll pie crust. The she married at 18 and a wake-up dinner ...

Don't expect Paula Deen to go cold turkey on the hoecakes. If she did, she wouldn't be Paula Deen. And her ardent fans — people who stand to learn from her newfound health challenges — would disengage ...