'I'm just trying to put my story out there that she didn’t treat me fairly, and I was her soul sister,' she said to The Times. A Real Southern Cook Dora Charles, Fran McCullough Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 - Cooking - 271 pages 4 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. It is about an employee that, despite over 20 years of generosity, feels that she still deserves yet even more financial support from Paula Deen.”Ĭharles says her reasons for speaking out now have nothing to do with money. 'That’s a symbol to me of what we used to do back in the day.'ĭeen's publicity team denied Charles' allegations: “Fundamentally Dora’s complaint is not about race but about money. 'I said, 'I'm not ringing no bell,'' she told The Times. Savannah, Georgia’s Dora Charles, author of A Real Southern Cook In Her Savannah Kitchen, discovered that two squashes, zucchini and good ol’ yellow crookneck, are definitely better than one. “I didn’t think I had to ’cause we were real close back then,” she said.ĭespite their closeness, Charles claims Deen referred to her and others using a racially offensive term for a black child and wanted Charles to ring a dinner bell in front of the restaurant and holler for people to come and get it. “If I lost Dora, I would have been devastated,” Deen wrote in her 2007 memoir, 'It Ain’t All About the Cooking.”Ĭharles claims that in the early days of their relationship Deen made her a deal: “Stick with me, Dora, and I promise you one day if I get rich you’ll get rich.” Charles now says she wished she had gotten that promise in writing. Charleston Kitchen 'Dora Charles is the real deal, and hers may be the most honest and personal Southern cookbook Ive read. The two women were reportedly close friends and with their birthdays being only a day apart they often celebrated together. Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of The Lee Bros. Burger King Will Close Up to 400 Stores by the End of the Year

A Real Southern Cook by Dora Charles