I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous.

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

I am proud to be a Southerner.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.