It was supposed to be a standard guest appearance. Chef/television personality appears on morning talk show to promote her last cookbook. Piece of cake, right? Well, that was the problem last week when Paula Deen stopped in at The View.
Barbara Walters forgot for a minute that the insipid roundtable was not 20/20 and laid into Deen for her Cookbook For The Lunch-Box Set. Walters wondered how Deen, in good conscience, could promote her famous butter-influenced cooking to children:
This is a cookbook for kids. Obesity is the number one problem for kids today. Everything you have here is enormously fattening. You tell kids to have cheesecake for breakfast ... Does it bother you that you are adding to it? No? Not at all?In reality, it's a fair question. A cookbook of sweets and fried foods for children seems like a bit of overkill. That said, is it really this book that will cause kids to spill over their waistbands -- or the snack bag of Cheetos that a little girl was eating for breakfast when I flew out of Kansas City International Airport recently?
When it comes to our consumption of fattening foods, how much is personal responsibility
and how much is due to the choices we are given? And should the rules be
different for children because most of their dietary choices are made
for them?
Deen answered Walters by saying her cookbook is not meant to your daily meal planner.
"What we have to teach our children, first off, is moderation. You know we don't eat this every day of our life," she said.
The only problem to Deen's argument is that moderation is something
that adults need to learn before we can pass it on to our kids.
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Paula Deen rocks! She has raised 2 fine, well mannered men, conquered her fear of leaving the house (that haunted her for years) turned into the #1 most well watched cooking shows to hit TV, is fun to watch, just love her!
Barbara is past retirement age, filled with plastic and botox, a shame nothing can change her nagging voice. Barbara has never had the home life joy with family that Paula has.
Barbara, your jealousy showed through and through. Get over yourself.
Anybody seen Paula's boys lately? They don't look too bad for being raised by the woman who writes these cookbooks. Maybe she taught them something about portion control and moderation. Just FYI, I spent over 3 hours watching these guys sign their books last week and without exception, they both made each individual feel like they were special. They took pictures and spoke to each person with respect and exceptional manners without regard to age, size, race, or special needs. Her recipes may last a long time, but these men are truly her legacy.
Thank you Barbra for policing the dangers of cook books for the safety of our children. What would we do without you? I was about to feed my kid Fried Cheesecake Gravy Dippers everyday for a month.
Barbara Walters is not really a valid source of criticism at all, nor are all of those ladies on the View these days...
I dunno about a lot of you, but if you're watching the View, you're either unemployed hating life, or you're some stay-at-home mom stuntin on your man's check, watching the skeletor ladies chuckle, while you clean on some diet pills. I bet Barbara Walters loves diet pills... that woman is all plastic, bones, and one annoying voice.
Paula Deen is wonderful. So what if she made a cookbook full of delicious bad-for-you food? You still have to cook that stuff! Cooking is work and exercise...
Paula's food probably has the fat content of some McDonalds, but you certainly didn't just hop in a car and get your fix in five minutes. Also, what got Paula famous were her delicious, yet fat-laden, treats. The type of food that you eat on Sunday and go into a legit food coma.
Remember that it's way easier starting up your car than the deep frier, and that's real talk.
I can't stand people who like to blame their personal problems on others. That's like somebody bringing in a cake to the office, and somebody else blaming the cake person for their obesity. If you're fat, you ate whatever you did to get to your weight.
To Nancy, stop trolling delicious food forums. Looks like your raw vegan overdone blogging self wants to hate on deliciousness. You mad because you can't eat some pecan pie because there's TOO MUCH BUTTER?
If you're keen about how you want to live, you can have your optimal weight and eat whatever you want.
I love how these disgusting little plastic women rip on the REAL women who know how to cook and have bangin' bodies.
Man, I'm hungry now.
Everything in moderation. Kids need to learn how to eat calorie-dense foods (in small amounts) so that they can carry those lessons into the teen & adult years. Deen's food isn't exactly my style, but she is clearly popular and there's no conceptual difference, calorie-wise, from her food and fois gras or duck confit (etc).
The lesson for kids should be that these foods are *special* and rich and to be savored in small portions. I do think that it was fair for Barbara to ask the question. And Deen's response was appropriate: these are treats, not every-day foods.
I love the fact that now we are attacking home cooked meals made from scratch with high quality ingredients and attributing that to the fact our children are overweight. Last time I checked I believe it was the lazy self absorbed parents who feed their kids Big Macs, Boxed Mac-n-cheese, and Taco Bell slop every day of their lives not to mention that they buy proceesed cookies and candy by the cart full and then load the kids up with soft drinks.
Don't blame Paula Deen or her great recipes for fat people. That Hag, Barbara Walters needs to get a grip and stop trying to sell herself. Why don't someoone point out she had an affair with a married senator for years and has no regrets. The old bag needs to retire and stop attacking the people America really likes.
I do not watch The View for this very reason, Barbara Walters is sooo past her prime and for her to invite a guest and then disrespect them to this level is irresponsible. I will always support Paula Deen she is fresh endearing and fun to watch, Barbara and the rest of The View are boring big mouths.
I do not watch �The View�, but from your description of this episode I would commend Barbara for calling Paula Deen to task on this issue. This is a conversation that needs to take place with citizens in the United States, and The View is the perfect forum to raise such a subject.
Our current national conversation about our health care system, if it is to be truly honest, must incorporate addressing the dietary habits of our people. Yes, there is certainly a place for butter in our lives, but it must be in moderation. Paula commonly advocates using butter, cream cheese, and every other fat, to excess - she built her career around her uncanny ability to layer fatty foods with more fat. Again, I�m not suggesting the total elimination of fats or sweets, on the contrary. However, a healthy lifestyle calls that these foods be eaten in moderation.
Over the last 15 or so years, we as a nation we have permitted purveyors of junk food to completely infiltrate our personal and public lives � Paula Deen certainly fits within the group. Charming and lovely she may be, while she is gushing about such fat-laden recipes as �Fried Butter Balls� she must also take responsibility for the fact that these types of foods, prepared according to her recipes, are detrimental to health of her viewers.
With national obesity and diabetes on the rise, especially among our children, we owe it to ourselves to come to the realization that there is no place in our lives for fat-filled recipes like �Fried Butter Balls� or other such fat-filled recipes that Paula Deen and other chefs like her disseminate to their viewing public.
Sincerely,
Nancy O'Mallon
www.aboutharvest.com
Barbara is obviously not comfortable with her self (hence the face lift and botox) so she is uncomfortable with women like Paula. Paula is a great role model who is hard working and blessed enough to get to do what she loves and is gifted at. Paula has handsome healthy kids with whom she has great relationship. Maybe if more women were as comfortable being women we would have more children who grew up with a mom who put her home and children first. Paula has obviously put her family and friends first. I hope Barbara has a great time eating tofu in her fancy hotel rooms by herself. I am going to stay here and fix my family a great big supper and sit at the table to hear about their day. My five children are active, sports playing, reading, loving people. They have not ever been fed a frozen dinner from a box, nor do they eat fast-food.
I am a cook-We have dessert, beef, potatoes and real butter. We grow and eat most of our own vegetables. My daughter makes the best cheesecake in all of Colorado and has the fair ribbons to prove it (she also has a box of track medals and has the highest volleyball vertical in our league.) By the way the "view" hasn't been worth watching since Star got stupid skinny and left. I will say a prayer for you Barbara and I will thank the good lord for Paula at the same time. Ronda in Colorado
Same on you Barbara After having met Paula and figuring out she is a genuine person who is only trying to get kids involved in the cooking process. (not growing up at fast food windows) Her recipes are passed down with a warm and fuzzy feeling from family. Clearly you should get a Paula cookbook get what you have of a family together and spend a day baking cookies, chatting, laughing together and leave the TV and your aged gloves off!! I'll pray for you sista.
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