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Mar 19 2012 12:50 PM ET

Gwyneth Paltrow feels the heat amid cookbook ghostwriter claims

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Self-appointed lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow is facing criticism that she employed a ghostwriter on her popular 2011 cookbook, My Father’s Daughter. On the heels of a New York Times article last week called “I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter,” Paltrow took to Twitter Saturday to brush off claims she hired Julia Turshen to write My Father’s Daughter and has contracted to write another book. Tweeted Paltrow, “Love @nytimes dining section but this weeks facts need checking. No ghost writer on my cookbook, I wrote every word myself.”

“Gwyneth’s tweet speaks for itself,” Paltrow’s publicist told EW. “Julia is her food assistant and is properly credited and acknowledged in the book. Gwyneth wrote every word and developed every recipe. Julia was not a ghost writer for Gwyneth.” READ FULL STORY »

Mar 9 2012 05:10 PM ET

'Olive' juice: 85 year old Marilyn Hagerty reviews Olive Garden, captivates Internet

As soon as she walked in, there was glitz and glamor. There were parties and dancing girls, waiters in black ties adorned with gold-colored towels, toiling in the midday. The room was delicately decorated in il stilo di Toscana, and all around there was exquisite cuisine, fine wine, and tantalizing aromas that circulated through the breathtaking, ethereal bistro. This was Olive Garden, and newly minted Internet sensation 85-year-old Marilyn Hagerty had arrived. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 8 2012 02:01 AM ET

'Top Chef: Texas' reunion: Did Sarah tell Emeril Lagasse to 'f-- off'? Also, worst Fan Favorite ever.

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According to reunion master Andy Cohen, 90 percent of all questions about Top Chef: Texas had to do with Beverly and the trio of sweaty, foul-mouthed meanies who bullied her throughout the competition. But honestly, after a whole season in which the food took a backseat to all the undercooked drama in the kitchen, I was glad that most of the reunion focused on other topics — like Ty-lör and his furry bottom (click this borderline-NSFW link at your own risk). Oh my God. Seriously, why were we subjected to that? He’s a good-looking guy, but in that photo he looks like an unholy union between Bluto and the Coppertone girl. That wasn’t the most disturbing moment of the night, though: We also learned that Sarah has “teary orgasms.” Thanks, Bravo. I can’t un-know that. I need a nice sorbet to cleanse that from my brain-palate. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 2 2012 06:32 PM ET

Gwyneth Paltrow jokes about herself on 'The Chew'

For all those who love to hate on Gwyneth Paltrow (and you know who you are), here’s a little something that could maybe make you believe she kind of gets it. Paltrow visited ABC’s The Chew today, where her good friend Mario Batali is a co-host. Toward the end of the show, Batali and the other hosts (Carla Hall, Clinton Kelly, Daphne Oz, and Michael Symon) peppered Paltrow with questions she had to answer during the one-minute Celebrity Egg Timer segment.

Click after the jump to see how she answered this question from Oz about 51 seconds in: “If the name of your blog wasn’t Goop, what would it be?” READ FULL STORY »

Mar 1 2012 05:16 PM ET

The odds are in your favor: How to get your mouth on Liam Hemsworth

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If you’ve been looking for a way to lick Josh Hutcherson, we just might have the solution. New York bakery Eleni’s, most recently responsible for their ingenious Oscar cookies, has given their detailed treatment to none other than the characters, creatures, and concepts of The Hunger Games, pictured above.

Their Capitol confections (which I can attest are not made from tesserae grain) include everything from tracker jackers you can eat without fear of delirium, a mockingjay pin (that I would proudly wear if it wouldn’t crumble on my shirt), a bow and arrow, a bunch of nightlock berries (eat at your own risk), the foreboding white rose, and for all you Team Gale fans, a mop-haired Liam Hemsworth.

While you won’t find these cookies included in your copy of this week’s Hunger Games issue, you can order the Down with the Capitol gift box (currently circulating EW’s office) for $75 from Eleni’s website. We’d love to see Seneca Crane take a bite out of that.

Read more:
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Mar 1 2012 02:01 AM ET

Gail Simmons blogs 'Top Chef' season 9 finale: And the winner is...

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As told to Nuzhat Naoreen.

It was a great season. It felt different for all of us, partially because of the chefs and the locations and some of the challenges that were so special. It was very memorable for me. I’m excited that we have a winner but I’m also sad it had to end.

[The finale challenge is different from] restaurant wars because one chef is in charge, as opposed to a team that’s involved. This has nothing to do with any of the other contestants, this is one chef’s vision, personality, and culinary style. It really gets to showcase who they are as chefs. We [had a similar finale challenge] for season 8 All-Stars as well. We realized that it’s just a much more realistic challenge for chefs of this caliber. It used to be that they’d have to cook for 10 or 15 of us [in the finale, and] serve everyone at once banquet style. But that’s not what a chef does in a restaurant every day. They have to serve many, many people and every batch of food, every plate that goes out has to be the same and has to be consistent. This really mimicked a restaurant experience much more. As the chefs get better every season we really change the finale. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 14 2012 12:00 AM ET
Feb 8 2012 06:00 PM ET

If you only consume one box of Oscar-themed cookies this year, pick these

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New York bakery Eleni’s has just announced this year’s lineup of Academy Awards-themed cookies, and they are almost too amazing to eat.

The iced sugar cookies, which are available in Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress assortments, depict miniature edible versions of some of this year’s most recognizable props, costumes, and faces – animal and human.

Included in the Best Picture collection are: READ FULL STORY »

Feb 3 2012 01:40 PM ET

Michael Fassbender has a really good time being Michael Fassbender -- PHOTO

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A few photos from the London after-party for the premiere of A Dangerous Method have been making the rounds on the Internet. And, based on the images, it appears Michael Fassbender very much enjoyed himself at the event. (I’m particularly fond of the one in which he’s tinkering around on a piano, but the waltz with co-star Viggo Mortensen is pretty amazing in its own right.) UK tabloid The Sun initially reported that the actor “was politely asked to leave ” and “was becoming a bit of a handful for the other guests.” (Insert “handful” joke here.) But according to GQ‘s Olivia Cole (GQ hosted the bash) via her Twitter, the drunk Fassbender tale (which claimed he ” lit a cigarette indoors and that was the point it had gone too far”) was “complete fiction” and that ” no one was asked to leave early.” Despite these photos, I tend to believe Cole here, as no one in their right mind would ask Michael Fassbender to leave early.
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Feb 2 2012 02:01 AM ET

Gail Simmons blogs 'Top Chef': Redeeming the Alamo for Pee-wee Herman

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As told to Nuzhat Naoreen.
I love Pee-Wee Herman. I watched Pee-Wee’s Playhouse every Saturday morning growing up. My brother and I used to do impressions and joke about him all day long, so I was really excited to have him on the show. I have to say, he is a really great actor. The most amazing part about meeting Pee-Wee Herman was also meeting Paul Reubens. We get so used to this persona, this stage personality that he’s created, that we forget that that’s not Paul Reubens at all. He turns off [the persona] and opens a beer and sits down and wants to talk about music and food. [He] told us some really amazing stories about his life over the years and [about] how the character Pee-Wee Herman came about. We had so much fun with him. We were with him for two days and it was really exciting. He was really one of my favorite guest judges ever. He just brought so much joy and nostalgia and fun to the set. READ FULL STORY »

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