Bio
Paula Deen
Paula Deen is a best-selling author, television show host, tastemaker to the stars and to
the everyday housewife and family who has built one of the most diverse and effective
media brands in entertainment today. The Deen brand extends from cooking products
through home goods, with further lifestyle extensions planned for this year.
Kim Severson
Kim Severson is a staff writer for the Dining section of The New York Times. She
previously wrote about cooking and the culture of food for the San Francisco Chronicle,
after a seven-year stint as an editor and reporter at the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska.
Before writing about food full-time, she covered crime, education, social services and
government for daily newspapers on the West Coast. Ms. Severson has won the Casey
Medal for Meritorious Journalism for her work on childhood obesity in 2002 and four
James Beard awards for food writing. She has written three books, The Trans Fat
Solution: Cooking and Shopping to Eliminate the Deadliest Fat from Your Diet, The
New Alaska Cookbook and most recently her memoir, Spoon Fed: Now Eight Cooks
Saved My Life.