If you’ve cooked your way through Gwyneth Paltrow’s previous two cookbooks – no doubt losing several stone in the process due to her stringent attitude toward processed food – there’s good news: the actor and Goop impresario has revealed that she has a third culinary tome in the works.
Promoting her film Mortdecai on Friday, Paltrow told fellow celebrity chef Rachael Ray that the follow-up to 2013’s It’s All Good will contain “clean comfort food” for the whole family. Clean food is cuisine that avoids chemicals and additives in favour of vegetables, whole grains and other virtuous fare.
Though healthy eating is rarely regarded as festive, Paltrow added that the book would encompass party food. “That’s always a tough one,” she said. “It’s like you’re having a party, and you don’t want to be in the kitchen. Make-ahead trays and stuff you can stick in the oven ... I would love easy party food and kid-family food, and that’s where I am right now.”
Despite much media mockery, Paltrow’s previous cookery books, It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great and My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family and Togetherness, were both bestsellers. The former book advocated snacking on soaked almonds and starting each day with a glass of kale juice. Other insights into the (then-) Paltrow-Martin ménage included: “We basically can’t live without Vegenaise – it’s a little out of control.”
Paltrow told Ray that she hasn’t always been a dab hand in the kitchen, citing her all-time worst culinary failure as an aubergine parmesan made in her teens. “I didn’t know that when you cook eggplant, you first have to sweat it to get all the bitter juice out, and I didn’t realize that you also have to bread eggplant parmesan and fry it before,” she said. “So I put slices of raw eggplant with jarred tomato sauce and mozzarella. And everyone threw up.”
Yet in case anyone thought she was too wholesome to be true, while on the promotional trail, Paltrow and co-star Johnny Depp revealed to Ellen that they had joined the mile-high club – though, needless to say, not together.
