Cooking with Paula Deen

A Life Well Lived

HYLLIS HOFFMAN DEPIANO was an incredible woman with many talents and accomplishments, a true Southern gem through and through. She loved being a wife to her husband Neal, mom to her twin sons—Brian Hart Hoffman and Eric Hoffman, who worked alongside her the last 16 years and have since taken on a larger role in the company to carry on her legacy—and grandmother “Gigi” to her grandkids, Hays and Amelia. She led a vibrant life), collecting treasures to add to her blue-and-white fine china collection, and getting in the kitchen to cook Southern comfort food for her loved ones.

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