GQ Names Gwyneth Paltrow and Her Cookbook One of the Least Influential of 2011

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • December 1, 2011
Remember earlier this year when Gwyneth Paltrow's cookbook My Father's Daughter inspired such scathing blog headlines as “Gwyneth Paltrow Cookbook Almost as Annoying As Gwyneth Paltrow” and “Alpha Mom Gwyneth Paltrow Strikes With a Cookbook to...
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