The Food Network's queen of butter and her good ol' hubby put on their southern charm for a recent Q&A with AOL.com. The happy couple dished about Paula's
infamous cookin', her former struggle with agoraphobia, and getting crowned
with the first Food Network star to get bleeped on the air!

AOL Food: What dish do you make better than anyone on earth?

Paula Deen: I think I make fabulous lace hoecake cornbread. You know,
there's kind of an art to that and a lot of people can't get it down and I
think I make that exceptionally well. And you know what I have to say that you
make the best of anybody I've ever tasted?

AOL Food: Your memoir It Ain't All About the Cookin' was was so
beautiful and brave, and in it, you talk very frankly about your struggle with
panic attacks and agoraphobia. Could you talk a little bit about how you
overcame it?

Paula Deen: I was on a 20-year roller coaster ride with agoraphobia. I
didn't know what I had, I would never share my feelings with anybody because I
was afraid that they thought I was crazy and I had never met a fellow
agoraphobic because here's the deal about that y'all, you're not going to meet
agoraphobics out on the street or out socially, they're hiding behind the
safety of their doors at home.
So one morning I was watching the Phil Donahue Show and he said today our
program we're donating a whole hour to something called agoraphobia and this is
people who can't leave their home, who just cannot face the fears that could
take place outside their door. And I sat there and I listened and I sat on the
edge of my bed, the foot of my bed, and I don't think I blinked for one hour. I
cried and I cried and I said what I have has a name. I'm not crazy.
I was standing there in my bedroom, in my gown, and the serenity prayer went
through my head -- a prayer that I had heard for so many years but this
particular morning, it went through my head and I understood it. I knew what I
was supposed to be asking God for: to change the things that I could and accept
the things that I couldn't and pray that God would give me the wisdom to know
the difference between those two things. And I sit here, I can't believe it's
been 22 years since that morning. It was not an overnight miracle, but every
day I would get out and I would venture out further and now, I'm never home!

AOL Food: Is it true that you were the first Food Network host to ever
get bleeped on air?

Paula Deen: It is true, y'all. I was the first Food Network Host to ever
get bleeped. I was making hot wings and I put the wings down in my dutch oven
with my deep grease and all of a sudden, I said "crap is that chicken still
alive?" Because that wing literally flew out of the pot and he popped grease
all on me and I said well you little son of b****.

Michael Groover: B*****d was what you said.

Paula Deen: Oh! I said you little b*****d -- that's exactly right, what
I said. And they bleeped it but you could see my lips moving. Even I could read
my lips. But you know, people, they've come to know me, and they know I don't
take myself too seriously. And, you know, I tell everybody, my God has a sense
of humor. I think he loves to hear us laugh.

Read the full interview here!
They are a real hoot, those two!