OHHHHH Gwen

In light of our conversation last class, I present you with a review 

of Gwenyth's new cookbook......................... 

Here are some excerpts from the review! 

Courtesy of The New York Post:  

When we mere mortals feel faint and off-kilter and fear we’re having a major health emergency, and really we’ve just gotten too much sun or had too little to eat, we file away our crazy little moment among our embarrassing stories shared only with close friends and family.

But when Gwyneth Paltrow has such an episode, she writes a cookbook. Her latest tome, “It’s All Good,” begins with the actress-turned-lifestyle guru’s harrowing tale.

Among the diet’s forbidden foods: coffee, eggs, sugar, shellfish, deepwater fish, potatoes, tomatoes, bell pepper, eggplant, corn, wheat and meat.

The book reads like the manifesto to some sort of creepy healthy-girl sorority with members who use beet juice rather than permanent marker to circle the “problem areas” on each other’s bodies. “Mealtimes should always feel happy. Not like a punishment,” Paltrow assures us in the introduction, leaving us to wonder just what dinnertime torture she’s previously endured.

The intro to the “grains” chapter notes, with great specificity, that “every single nutritionist, doctor and health-conscious person I have ever come across . . . seems to concur that [gluten] is tough on the system and many of us are at best intolerant of it and at worst allergic to it.”

When she goes on to write that “sometimes when my family is not eating pasta, bread or processed grains like white rice, we’re left with that specific hunger that comes with avoiding carbs,” it’s hard not to feel a bit concerned for her daughter, Apple, 8, and son Moses, 6.

Photos of what appear to be her children are featured throughout the book — offering a rare glimpse of Paltrow’s family, and, it seems, an attempt to position herself as a sort of everywoman, though, as the jacket cover admits, when it comes to looking like Gwynnie, it’s not just diet (and money), “some of it is genes.”

On the front cover, Paltrow goes to comical lengths to look relatable. She smiles toothily in front of rustic wooden crates piled with zucchini. Her blond hair is tousled and scraggly, her dark roots clearly visible. She wears little makeup, and her skin walks a precarious line between glowing and shiny.

In the pictures inside, she looks far more comfortable in pastoral art photos in which she’s gathering vegetables in a fetching ethnic print dress and Hunter boots than she does actually cooking and touching a raw chicken.

There seems to be no end to Paltrow’s food obsessions — and her broadcasting them to the world. She’s reportedly bored with acting and wants to focus on expanding her lifestyle brand. The only film she’s starring in this year is “Iron Man 3,” in which the Oscar winner again tackles the meaty role of Pepper Potts, Tony Stark’s secretary and love interest.

Her rep has said she won’t give up acting altogether, though, and will “do one, maybe two supporting parts a year.”

She might, however, make time for a food-related starring role. Paltrow has been in talks to play Prune chef Gabrielle Hamilton in a film adaptation of Hamilton’s raw memoir, “Blood, Bones & Butter.”

Given that Hamilton is a scrappy, petite rebel and Paltrow is a 5-foot-9 patrician beauty, it seems like a logical role for her to take on — so long as no butter is involved in the actual filming.

FULL REVIEW: 

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/food/starved_for_attention_CkQoljEkRWx1rnIQ6ObG7J/0