6:46 pm - 04/07/2011
Gwyneth Paltrow is an asshole: COOKBOOK EDITION!!
Eater pulled the very "best" lines from Gwyneth's new cookbook My Father's Daughter, wherein Gwynnie states loud and proud:
[Image via sexy, sexy Gabe at Videogum]
1) "One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget — a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver."
2) "Through this process my father and daughter had unwittingly taught me the importance of balance. Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could."
3) "The stove is really the epicenter of my house — I am never far away from it and most of the time there is something atop it, simmering away for my family."
4) "When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there."
5) On Vegenaise: "My most often-used and beloved ingredient. It can be found at most grocery stores and all health food stores—unfortunately not yet in London. Regular mayo is fine and works, but Vegenaise is a healthier alternative.
6) "I grew up going to the island of Nantucket (off the coast of Massachusetts) at the end of every summer."
7) "I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious."
8) "I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs (sorry, Dad)."
9) "One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad niçoise—one of my favorites."
10) "I love corn so much I tried to grow it one summer in the garden. The raccoons loved it even more."
11) "I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one."
12) "During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well."
13) "One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert."
14) "I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat—don't ask, it's a long story."
15) "We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden—a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made."
16) "When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."
Source: Eater
[Image via sexy, sexy Gabe at Videogum]
1) "One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget — a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver."
2) "Through this process my father and daughter had unwittingly taught me the importance of balance. Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could."
3) "The stove is really the epicenter of my house — I am never far away from it and most of the time there is something atop it, simmering away for my family."
4) "When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there."
5) On Vegenaise: "My most often-used and beloved ingredient. It can be found at most grocery stores and all health food stores—unfortunately not yet in London. Regular mayo is fine and works, but Vegenaise is a healthier alternative.
6) "I grew up going to the island of Nantucket (off the coast of Massachusetts) at the end of every summer."
7) "I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious."
8) "I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs (sorry, Dad)."
9) "One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad niçoise—one of my favorites."
10) "I love corn so much I tried to grow it one summer in the garden. The raccoons loved it even more."
11) "I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one."
12) "During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well."
13) "One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert."
14) "I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat—don't ask, it's a long story."
15) "We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden—a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made."
16) "When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."
Source: Eater
"- And then, when i looked in the mirror, I saw that... HE GAVE ME A PERM!!!!!"
One time, my dear friend Cokie Roberts and I were hosting a dinner party in honor of 2006 Nobel Laureate Akira Suzuki. The event had been sponsored by Dom (Cristal is so passe, don't you think?) and the bubbly had been a flowing. By the time we got to the third course, I overhear a conversation between Mary Lou Retton and Kofi Annan about what how dessert selection might be. In a panic, I rushed to my housemaid Guadalupe and begged her to walk the 5 miles to the local vegan bakery and pick up an assortment of profiteroles.
When she returned 2 hours later, she was holding a box of cream horns! I couldn't believe it. I immediately made her pack her things and paid her her wages for the next month and told her she needed to be off the property immediately. Good help is so hard to come by. Thank gosh, my darling friend Tinsley Mortimer was running late. She kindly delivered the proper dessert and no one was any the wiser.
But I will tell you that the anxiety I felt during those few short hours, no one should go through that. Sometimes I just wish I could fly away to a third world country were there are no dinner parties or afternoon teas or black tie soirees. Those people in Libya need to realize how lucky they are and stop fighting, they don't know how easy they have it.
LOL, what does that even mean?
Notice how at no point in here did she say "and everyone else should do this, too."
srsly I don't see any misogyny in this post
16) "When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."
that's pretty deep, man..
heehee
but nothing can compare to returning home to my indoor plumbing, it is truly a gift and a luxury. especially during these difficult economic times, it's so important to really respect the little thing.
LOL