WHY DO CELEBRITIES INSIST ON BEING WRITERS TOO???

I'm sure you've all seen those books written by celebrities, I mean, even Obama himself couldn't resist it. What is it about books that lures people into trying to write even when they suck at it? The last fiasco I've read about was Gwyneth Paltrow's cook books.

The reviews speak for themselves...

"... it taks "laughable Hollywood neuroticism about eating to the next level"... It's All Good reads like "the manifesto to some sort of creepy healthy-girl sorority with members who use beet juice rather than permanent marker to circle the 'problem areas' on each other's bodies" ... "Paltrow casually writes that she has a surfeit of apples from teh trees on ther $5.4 million five-bedroom Hamptoms summer home". Her suggested diet, Yahoo! Shine calculates, would cost $300 a day, a figure obviously out of reach for the vast majority of Americans".


Read the whole review here.

And one in Spanish by Mikel López Iturriaga ("el comidista") which is quite fun to read here 

Being a lover of cooking and cookbooks, I can't help posting this!

We can't deny cooking is fashionable at the moment - just look at all the cooking programmes across channels, cooking competitions, etc

And the commercial impact is so obvious that in France they're getting ready to start the second edition of the Festival du Livre Culinaire, with more than 200 publishing houses present there showing their books and sharing experiences for 3 days. I wish I was there!