Paula Deen Butters Up Boston Next Weekend

We know y'all ain't from the South, but we bet you love a little Southern cooking now and then. If Tupelo isn't enough to butter your roll, try a little Paula Deen. The sugar-sweet, butter-obsessed Southerner will be cooking up a storm at the Bank of America Pavilion at 6:30 pm on August 29. From hoecakes to biscuits to deep-fried Twinkies, we hope Deen will fill our every unhealthy need. The show has a bigger purpose than pleasing the tastebuds and fattening the figure, though: it's a benefit* for the Greater Boston Food Bank, and attendees are asked to bring food donations in addition to their tickets (which will run you $31-$66, or $150 if you want a meet and greet with Paula).

We recently learned that Paula also, somewhat inexplicably, has rugs (pictured). But don't hold it against her.

*the term is used loosely: a whole dollar of each ticket goes toward the food bank. But if you spring for the $150 tickets, it all goes to the food bank. More reason to splurge?