My friend Gwenn & I went to Atlanta to the Metro Food & Entertaining Show. Paula was there. We had great seats (4th or 5th row I suppose?). Her sons are adorable and hilarious. They made 3 recipes...each with mayo. She made 3 recipes as well (well she spoke and her husband make the food). She made the orange brownies I had made for guests just the night prior...I thought that was quite a coincidence! I'm brilliant!! (ha ha)
Paula is just as funny and cute and as sweet as I thought. She was quick on her feet when she let the audience ask her questions and she was simply hilarious. One lady in the middle of the auditorium wanted one of her brownies and asked Paula to throw it. Paula did but it didn't go nearly as far as that lady wanted. Then the lady yelled "harder Paula!!" and Paula died laughing and moved on. Someone else made her a CD with a stick of butter on the cover. She truly impressed the crowd when Smithfield workers (her sponsor and a company that has union issues now) came up to her and yelled "Miss Paula" and Paula said "yes" and one of the girls said "how do you feel about how Smithfield treats its workers?!" Paula was definitely shaken for a moment and had to think for a minute. Then she said "Y'ALL...I'm not your chef, I'm your cook. I'm YOUR cook. I'm not your doctor. I'm your cook...not your politician". Everyone yelled and cheered for her, about 7 cops came out and the Smithfield girls walked off and she went on being funny and adorable. It was a GREAT two hours.
Prior to seeing Paula & her sons we shopped at the expo and learned about clingvinyl (brilliant) and went to the "Wine, Beer & Spirits Tasting" (you have to pay to get entry and it was well worth it). We didn't want beer or spirits but quickly found the wine area. There was a very nice man there serving tiny sample sizes and we said "we like wine, we're with you". That sold him, he loved us. Forget the sample sizes, he was filling us up every time. We had a wonderful wonderful wonderful time! I love Paula.....and Gwenn. ;)
-Kim
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