The community was also involved in June 2013 in protesting to companies selling products by Paula Deen, the celebrity chef, after she was accused of racism, reportedly resulting in the loss of millions of dollars' worth of business.
In January 2012, chef Paula Deen, who is diabetic, produced an e-recipe diabetic cook book titled Delicious Living, Y'All which made use of her sons in promoting diabetic friendly recipes.
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Mixon reportedly dated Food Network celebrity chef, Bobby Deen, in 2009-10 when they publicly appeared together on an episode of the Paula Deen cooking show and at other events.
Throughout the first season, Oprah interviews Aerosmith's Steven Tyler at his New Hampshire home; journeys to Haiti with Sean Penn nearly two years after a devastating earthquake took the lives of more than 300,000 people; tours Skywalker Ranch with George Lucas as her personal guide; has a slumber party at Southern chef Paula Deen's Georgia estate; and travels to a small town in Iowa devoted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation.
The Gnats were featured on the Food Network show Paula's Home Cooking during the episode "Ball Game", when Paula Deen threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a game and wore a team jersey while cooking.