Has anyone tried Paula Deene's recipes? Are they any good?

[Cleita]

20. My grandma from Arkansas made the best fried chicken.

It was fried in pork fat. She raised and killed her own chickens too like an old woman raised on a farm would. They were organically raised on corn, grains and all the worms they could scratch out of the ground. Her chicken was truly delicious, however, I don't think I would want a steady diet of that grease feast today although fried chicken dinner was always special not any every day or even Sunday dinner offering from her kitchen.

Daily, we had plainer and not so greasy meals many of them in casseroles baked in the oven with lots of starchy food like rice, noodles, potatoes, or beans, various in season vegetables and actually very little meat. It was during WWII as well so butter was rationed as were many other food staples so it was not used as freely in her kitchen as Paula does. Meat was stretched in the casseroles so many could eat what a few do today. Even hamburgers were a luxury item you ate on special occasions and you had to go out to get one because the buns were not available in the market like they are today.