Gwyneth Paltrow has taken aim at an article that claims the actress used a ghostwriter for her cookbook, “My Father’s Daughter,” published last April.
“Love The New York Times dining section,” Paltrow tweeted over the weekend. “But this week’s facts need checking. No ghostwriter on my cookbook, I wrote every word myself.”
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Paltrow was responding to an article in The New York Times titled “I was a Cookbook Ghostwriter.” The piece was penned by Julia Moskin, the writer of nine cookbooks who has contributed to “many other chefs’ projects … some credited, but most anonymous.” In the article, Moskin looks at the often uncredited writers and cooks who help celebrity chefs “maintain cookbook production schedules that boggle the mind.”
In the article, Moskin quotes writer and chef Julia Turshen, who Moskin says is working on “a second cookbook with Gwyneth Paltrow after their collaboration on ‘My Father’s Daughter.'”
However, it appears that Paltrow may be splitting hairs in her Twitter correction.
While the Times’ piece states that Turshen began her career as “the ghostwriter for the ghostwriter on a book by Mario Batali,” the article only claims that Turshen collaborated on Paltrow’s tome. While Paltrow likely wrote every word of the book as she claims, Turshen did help the actress perfect her family recipes for publication.
It’s a fact that Paltrow is unlikely to deny, as she wrote in her author’s note, “I literally could not have written this book without the tireless, artful assistance of Julia Turshen, who stood over my shoulder at the stove and chopping block for the better part of a year, bringing a method to my freestyling madness. She quantified, tested, and retested every recipe, oversaw the production of the photos, helped brainstorm in crisis and, above all, was my intellectual and emotional support through the whole process.”
Past reports on Paltrow’s book have referred to Turshen as Paltrow’s “kitchen assistant.”
On Turshen’s personal website, she includes Paltrow’s lifestyle newsletter, Goop, under the category “Work.” In the newsletter, Paltrow has affectionately dubbed Turshen “The Turshinator.”