A Cookbook Ghostwriter Tells All

Okay. Sit down. Hold onto your hat, and maybe even get a barf bag ready if you’re sensitive. What we’re about to reveal is…shocking.

Gwyneth Paltrow did not write her whole cookbook by herself.

Rachael Ray doesn’t do all her own stuff either.

We’ll ready the fainting couch. When you’ve revived, check this out: a cookbook ghostwriter has explained what it’s like to be her in the New York Times.

It doesn’t sound like an easy job: the ghostwriter must “produce a credible book from the thin air of a chef’s mind and menu — to cajole and probe, to elicit ideas and anecdotes by any means necessary.”

“‘Write

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