Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow has a new recipe book called It's All Good, though some critics feel it should be titled It's All Ridiculously Pricey. As radar points out "Her egg white omelet calls for duck eggs and will cost $30. "Her fish fingers recipe for kids will set you back $71.50. "For tun ... More >>
Since Julia Moskin's article about cookbook ghostwriters came out last week in the Times, "ghostwriter" has become a dirty word in the celebrity cooking world. First, Rachael Ray told Eater that she has never employed a ghostwriter for any of her projects. She said that Wes Martin, the chef credited ... More >>
Maybe it's because of the whole Mike Daisey mess, but everyone's out to find flaws in reporting or to discredit what we're told these days. And I'm glad that's happening. But one little Oscar winning lady is fighting back. As E! reported, Gwyneth Paltrow said on facebook:
The latest installment of Gwyneth Paltrow's indispensable GOOP newsletter deals with a topic of immediate interest to those planning to go out on New Year's Eve: hangovers. The surprising part of this is that Paltrow ever allows herself to drink to excess, but the unsurprising part is that he ... More >>
Gwyneth Paltrow, ever the entrepreneur, has launched an iPhone app called "GOOP City" (after her uber-precious GOOP newsletter). It's Paltrow's guide to New York City, and according to Gawker video editor Matt Cherette, it is "worth every penny." It's also presumably kind of spacy and just fo ... More >>
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Starbucks is being sued for firing an employee who is a dwarf after she asked for a stool or small stepladder to perform her job. [Reuters] The City Parks Department has selected City Farm Café as the new operator of the seasonal café in Union Square Park. [Broadway World] Nutrition advoc ... More >>
Recipe search engines, such as the one Google launched earlier this year, are useful for finding recipes. But just how good the recipes are is debatable. [NY Times] Murray's Cheese, which already has a store in Houston, Tex., has signed a deal with supermarket chain Kroger to distribute its ... More >>
Gwyneth, Gwyneth, everywhere.In case you haven't gotten your fill of Gwyneth Paltrow yet, you can read all about her in this week's New Yorker, as she gets the Talk of the Town treatment.
A food blog has introduced a food-cart walking tour, charging $40 to take participants to some of the city's most talked-about mobile vendors. [NY Post] Underground food markets are cropping up around the country, allowing vendors to avoid hefty fees for health permits and insurance. [NY Tim ... More >>
A YouTube video gone viral suggests that sugar is toxic. Is our excessive consumption of sugar not only causing diabetes and obesity, but heart disease, hypertension, and many common cancers? [NY Times] McCafé customers are apparently more loyal to the Golden Arches than Starbucks patrons o ... More >>
Ever wonder who picks the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants? 27 panels of journalists, chefs and restaurateurs, and food lovers worldwide do the judging. [NY Times] Foodies at 41 is a club at P.S. 41 where kid members get to make ice cream at Grom Gelato, pizza at Keste, and pal aro ... More >>
The whitest girl you know? Not so much. In a bit of synergistic ego-stroking, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jay-Z decided that the best way to show off their friendship to the rest of the Internet was to open up their chat logs to the world, with Gwynnie quizzing Jay for her rich-people-things site Go ... More >>
Although Gwyneth Paltrow may show her smirking mug on the cover of Bon Appétit's June issue, the magazine's May issue - the first under Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport - will be much easier to swallow.
Gwyneth overload.You can't turn on a TV or a radio without seeing or hearing Gwyneth Paltrow these days. And it's starting to look more and more like the long-legged Country Strong star is about to invade newsstands, too.
Gwyneth Paltrow took an abrupt left turn in career emphasis when she made Country Strong and sang on Glee plus three awards shows, doing everything from slinking on a piano and crooning to a feathery Cee Lo Green and the Muppets, to standing upright at the Oscars and doing her best Carrie U ... More >>
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It's the Real: Guess which one of these guys is Just Blaze. Photo by Noah Kalina.In this week's Village Voice, Ben Westhoff profiles the white, Jewish comedy-rap duo It's the Real, Andy Beta rounds up an exciting new crop of outer-borough dance music labels (including WT, Golf Channel, and L. ... More >>
Gwyneth Paltrow's voice and stage presence have come a long way since Duets in 2000. Sure, it was a movie about karaoke, but her creepy, um, duet with her film-father Huey Lewis was a little bit hard to watch and not just because they were singing about one night stands. Last night, Paltrow redeeme ... More >>
SweetiepieA week after Sweetiepie posted a note on its door informing passersby it had closed because of a fire, it looks like that wasn't exactly the case. A now former employee of the Greenwich Avenue restaurant told Grub Street that it actually closed because of significant debts owed to v ... More >>
Although no vendor has publicly acknowledged it, meat and dairy products originating from cloned animals may already be on supermarket shelves in Europe. [NY Times] Gordon Ramsay reportedly owes some $2 million in taxes. The celebrity chef now has three TV shows in the U.S.: Hell's Kitchen, ... More >>
It's not as exciting as ramps to most foodies, but watercress has been gaining a following among both chefs and home cooks, and it's in season now. [NY Times] Food photography in restaurants is getting out of hand. Dovetail's John Fraser has had customers set up tripods. Momofuku Ko, La Esqu ... More >>
Despite the advent of smart-phone apps, enhanced mobile websites, and scannable 2-D bar codes, restaurateurs find that simple text coupons can be efficient and successful. [Nation's Restaurant News] Americans are developing a more sophisticated palate for cheese, according to experts, which ... More >>
One of the funniest people alive, Andrea Martin is the SCTV genius who went on to become a Tony award winner on Broadway and a familiar punim on the social scene.
Madonna's arms spurred headlines today when news outlets got a load of a photo that appears to reveal the star's once healthy looking guns have taken on reptilian sinew. The Daily Mail thinks they might be the fault of fitness guru Tracy Anderson. "Perhaps she [Madonna] needs to rethink ... More >>
Katie KiehnWhich Hollywood spawn do you feel for with the most passion? Which one has the largest talent, whether it was acquired genetically, environmentally, or--it happens--on her own? Which one is the farthest from a charity case and would have actually made it without having had a world-famous ... More >>
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