I've just started a recipe column in my neighborhood newspaper. It's called "From the Dining Car", since I live in the historic Pullman neighborhood in Chicago. I would love to become a cook on a par with Paula Deen. (I've already got the humor part down pat!) Any marketing pros out there willing to do some pro bono work to get me started? I love my homemade fried chicken, spaghetti, nut wedges, mac and cheese, and gumbo. My all-time favorite family recipe is the gumbo my mom would make every Christmas. I've continued the tradition. Anything else is just chicken soup! My biggest cooking triumph is when my mother told me she liked my fried chicken and spaghetti better than hers! And she taught me how to make them! They're better left unmentioned!