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From GOOP creator to cookbook writer!

Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow talks to (and cooks with) Vogue's Jeffrey Steingarten about her latest endeavor - a cookbook, entitled My Father's Daughter, featuring an array of healthy food recipes as well as delicious eats like french fries and pizza. Who knew Gwyn even ate that stuff!

It's refreshing to read Steingarten refer to the sometimes-criticized Paltrow as nice and sweet - she "immediately put me at ease," he notes - but still points out that her kitchen is super-clean: "Gwyneth admitted to being a neat freak, as her father was."

Additionally, Steingarten calls Gwyn "considerably more beautiful in the flesh than in pictures... a bit taller and svelter and better muscled than you would think," he writes, with an "enviably flat stomach."

Think this cookbook will erase the bad press Paltrow has gotten for her ongoing GOOP newsletter?