Hamilton’s ease and comfort in a kitchen were instilled in her at an early age when her parents hosted grand parties, often for more than one hundred friends and neighbors.

Above all she sought family, particularly the thrill and the magnificence of the one from her childhood that, in her adult years, eluded her. Preferably gin.īefore Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty fierce, hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. In ecstatic farewell to my years of corporate catering, we would never serve anything but a martini in a martini glass. There would be no ‘conceptual’ or ‘intellectual’ food, just the salty, sweet, starchy, brothy, crispy things that one craves when one is actually hungry. I wanted the lettuce and eggs at room temperature.the butter-and-sugar sandwiches we ate after school for snack.the marrow bones my mother made us eat as kids that I grew to crave as an adult. Winner, 2012 James Beard Foundation Award for Writing & Literature Like the second season of Glee (which she infused with a delightfully cool and surprisingly coordinated character named Holly Holliday), that one episode of The Marriage Ref, and most admirably, her oft-mocked, awfully titled but strangely informative newsletter on good living, Goop.Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef After all, Paltrow is a pro at making repellant-sounding projects sufferable. If for whatever reason-or whatever the results of iron-stomach test groups-though, the preliminary title endures, there is no better actress to star.

May we suggest simplifying it to Blood & Bones, Blood & Butter, or even better, Cast Iron Woman? Something that won’t upset potential moviegoers’ stomachs or cause an audience to dry heave in unison during the film’s opening-credit sequence. The project-which is already being compared to the unconventional Julia Child biopic Julie & Julia-is a fitting one for Paltrow, a self-confessed foodie who has written a cookbook, forged a friendship with Mario Batali, and produced her own easy-to-follow video recipe tutorials. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hamilton is “the youngest of five siblings born to a French mother and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. Based on Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef-a phrase less stomach-churning due to an explanatory subtitle that doesn’t prompt visuals of body parts and dairy products being mashed in a Kitchen Aid-the film will chronicle the restaurant owner/chef’s background and her road toward culinary success. And while we have no problem with the talent, the title is a little irksome-nauseating, even. Last night we learned that Gwyneth Paltrow-Oscar winner, longstanding Vanity Fair muse, and authority on living well-had signed on to star in the upcoming indie Blood, Bones & Butter.

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