Articles by: Lauren Passell
Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook, It’s All Good, is based around her elimination diet, which requires her to eliminate… well, almost everything: soy, coffee, alcohol, dairy, eggs, sugar, shellfish, deepwater fish, potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant (WHY?!), corn, wheat, meat, and processed food. So how does she write a cookbook with [...]
When I was in high school, I read a lot; I just didn’t read assigned books. I thought I was bored by their contents (an invalid claim—I never gave them a chance in the first place), and reading them took up time I thought I didn’t have (because high school [...]
Can you handle more facts about the food industry, which is playing you like a sugary, cheese-filled fiddle? Read on, if you dare.
Last week, we brought you five scary, disturbing, and just plain weird facts about food gleaned from Michael Moss’s excellent new book, Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. We have two more installments for you this week. Put down the fries and check out this list:
Beware: Salt, Sugar, Fat, Michael Moss’s book about processed foods in America, will turn a casual sashay down the juice aisle into a nightmare. Moss argues, and proves, that companies like Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Kellogg, Nestlé, Oreos, Cargill, and Capri Sun, prey on customers, intentionally addicting them to unhealthy food. [...]
Stephen King’s books have sold over 350 million copies. Like them or loathe them, you have to admit that’s impressive. King’s manual On Writing reveals that he’s relentlessly dedicated to his craft. He admits that not even The King himself always sticks to his rules—but trying to follow them is [...]
Some of our greatest writers were, to put it bluntly, total boozebags. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ernest Hemingway, among many others, gave their lives to both writing and alcoholism. That being said, some of the best books written beg for an alcoholic accompaniment. Exercise restraint [...]
How many weddings have you attended that featured a bride wearing a white dress? And what is up with that cake? But why? Says who? It’s about time we brainstormed some unique wedding themes. And for book lovers, that list might look a little like this.
I like to fancy myself one of those easygoing vegetarians. I truly understand that not everyone should be a vegetarian. I’ve never pressured anyone to abstain from meat. I’m not even very strict with myself. I will pretend I didn’t hear that the soup was made with chicken stock, and [...]
