It's All Easy: Delicious Weekday Recipes for the Super-Busy Home Cook

Gwyneth Paltrow

Apr 2016 · Sold by Grand Central Life & Style

About this ebook

The #1 New York Times bestselling cookbook that will help anyone make delectable, healthy meals in no time!

Gwyneth Paltrow is back to share more than 125 of her favorite recipes that can be made in the time it would take to order takeout (which often contains high quantities of fat, sugar, and processed ingredients). All the dishes are surprisingly tasty, with little or no sugar, fat, or gluten. From easy breakfasts to lazy suppers, this book has something for everybody. Yummy recipes include Chocolate Cinnamon Overnight Oats, Soft Polenta with Cherry Tomatoes, Chicken Enchiladas, Pita Bread Pizzas, Quick Sesame Noodles, and more! Plus, an innovative chapter for "on-the-go" meals (Moroccan Chicken Salad Wrap, Chopped Salad with Grilled Shrimp, and others) that you can take for lunch to work or school, to a picnic, or to eat while watching soccer practice!

Ratings and reviews

I will say this--the recipes look and sound delicious, and eating from this book for a few months would probably do wonders for my waistline and energy levels. Unfortunately, it's unlikely to ever happen for one simple reason: it's not all that easy. What Gwyneth Paltrow's book--and her general philosophy of life--seems to miss completely is that a person who has the resources to keep their kitchen stocked with all of the specialty ingredients her recipes require probably has a lot of excess time on their hands, or else could probably just hire someone to cook for them full time. And I think that lies at the heart of my frustration with Gwyn's well-meaning but clueless approach to pretty much everything. Gwyneth Paltrow's books, especially this one, are out of touch with the audience they purport to target. She likes to come across as though she's speaking to every busy, workaday woman. She smiles her sun-kissed smile and flips her beautiful hair and assures us that anyone can do what she's done if they just care enough to try, if they just follow these simple steps! And I want to believe it, but I live in reality. In reality, her books are only useful for someone with a lot of disposable income or extra time to seek out bargains, neither of which applies to the average busy, workaday woman. Of my own friends and colleagues--a group of intelligent, educated, professional women--I can easily put them into three categories: those who don't have the money to drop on the ingredients, those who don't have the time to seek them out, and those who live in food deserts and don't have ready access to those ingredients even if they did have the time or the money. And as out-of-reach as the vision Gwyn is selling is for us, I can't even imagine how much further away it is for women who one or more jobs at minimum wage, take care of children, and barely make ends meet--in other words, the women that could be helped most by the promise of quick, easy, nutritious recipes. TL;DR: Gwyneth Paltrow is beautiful and rich and talented, and while these very things may make some of us idolize her and want to be like her, they also make her uniquely unsuited to write anything for working women simply because she's so out of touch with what that reality looks like for most of us.

Much like other of Gwyneth's grand health ideas, this is unrealistic for the working class person.

Gwyneth is a twit.

About the author

Gwyneth Paltrow is an Oscar Award-winning actor and author of the New York Times bestselling cookbooks My Father's Daughter and It's All Good. She is founder of the website Goop, which covers food, fashion, fitness, and travel. Paltrow is an actress, businesswoman, and mother who lives in Los Angeles.