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New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Blame it on the butter.

Maxim magazine has named 64-year-old Southern chef Paula Deen as its “Hottest Female TV Chef,” saying man cannot resist her rich comfort food.

According to the editors, “Deen’s devotion to the art of down-home, fat-laden cooking filled them with a lust for life.”

Deen, a diminutive, grey-haired Southern champion in the kitchen, beat out several younger chefs including the stunning Giada de Laurentis and Padma Lakshmi.

Deen has a heavy hand with butter when she cooks and frequently says that everything is better with butter. Apparently that is enough to melt men’s heart.

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The restaurant industry is one of the industries impacted the most by the bad economy. The reason is simple – restaurant face rising costs, while consumers looking to save money cut out discretionary spending. Fuel costs make all prices go up especially food, which must be transported to restaurants, and when trying to trim the budgets, many consumers start cooking at home to save money. Restaurants will need to get pretty creative to entice patrons to part with their cash. Here is a look at some restaurant trends you can expect to see next year.

Locally Grown Food

Expect to see more locally grown food next year. With recent scares from tainted food, especially the salmonella incident which mistakenly fingered tomatoes as the culprit, restaurants will need to be extra careful with the food it serves its diners. After all, even though they do not know if they bought tainted food, if it makes a customer sick that customer will always remember them as the restaurant that gave them food poisoning. More restaurants will end up sourcing their food from local farms and Farmers Markets to ensure fresh ingredients.

More Pasta Please

Pasta is one of the most inexpensive menu items for a restaurant to make. For the most part, sauce ingredients are cheap, so restaurants can get away with charging $15 for an entree that probably only cost them $1. And they can get away with hardly putting any meat in the dish as patrons fill up quickly on pasta. (more…)