Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Her Thanksgiving Recipes

Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Her Thanksgiving Recipes

Gwyneth Paltrow loves Thanksgiving. She loves it so much, in fact, that she’s offering fans a glimpse into her turkey-day cookbook – gratis!

“Thanksgiving is, without a doubt, my favorite holiday,” writes Paltrow in the latest installment of her Goop.com e-mail newsletter. “I love when everyone comes together and celebrates the idea of gratitude, something we all mean to do every day, but seem to lose sight of most of the time.”

Adds Paltrow, who recently embarked on a culinary journey for PBS with celeb chef and close pal Mario Batali, “I also love the cooking.”

The budding chef shares her suggestions for three variations of the Thanksgiving feast: a menu “for a crowd”, for a “small gathering,” and even a turkey burger dinner for two.

While traditional roasted turley is a mainstay in the Paltrow household, she adds a few special touches of her own, including roasted sweet potatoes with maple syrup, orange and spices, cranberry chutney and pumpkin ice cream pie.

But Thanksgiving is about more than just yummy food, says the mother-of-two.

“Make sure that no matter what type of meal you are having, you take a moment to think about how much you do have (health, love, friendship, passion, perspective, appreciation, intellect, reason, kindness) and reflect on how you can share more of it with others,” she concludes.

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Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Her Rules for Healthy Living

Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Her Rules for Healthy Living

Gwyneth Paltrow’s health-conscious lifestyle and eating habits can be traced back to a phone call a decade ago that, she says, “changed my life.”

In a new GOOP newsletter, the actress writes that, while filming The Talented Mr. Ripley in Italy in 1998, she learned her father had been diagnosed with throat cancer.

“I watched his health deteriorate slowly until his death in 2002,” Paltrow, 36, says of her director dad, Bruce. “During this time I began to read about Eastern medicine and the body’s capacity to heal itself.”

Paltrow, who was known for following her own strict diet, encouraged her dad to follow in her healthy footsteps. While he embraced acupuncture, he “hated macrobiotic food,” she says, “which he likened to ‘biting into The New York Times.’”
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