"I always feel closest to my father, who was the love of my life until his death in 2002, when I am in the kitchen,” she writes in the tome. "I can still hear him over my shoulder, heckling me, telling me to be careful with my knife, moaning with pleasure over a bite of something in only the way a Jew from Long Island can, his shoulders doing most of the talking. I will never forget how concentrated he looked in the kitchen."
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No wonder the writer notes she spends two hours a day working out.
Paltrow's words of culinary advice: "Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be."
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The author writes that Paltrow has the sharpest knives he's ever seen, a deep-fryer in her kitchen and she has scheduled phone calls with her L.A.-based therapist while she’s staying in her London house.
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Paltrow,Ralph Lauren, 37,Ed hardy Shoes, appears in the mag's annual age issue, where she spends a few days cooking with the writer to promote her new cookbook (out April 2011), My Father’s Daughter. (Their conversation turns awkward when he asks if she’d ever have plastic surgery; the interviewer is then uninvited to Paltrow's cover shoot later.)
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Paltrow cites her father, Bruce, for inspiring her love of cooking.