As Hollywood stars mature, they often add food and drink to build a “portfolio career”: everything from George Clooney, who sells tequila, to Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness recipes, to Stanley Tucci, who presents documentaries about Italian food.
Drew Barrymore goes one step further: not only has she written her own cookbook, but she also regularly advocates for other chefs and writers on her Drew Barrymore TV show.
Her own book, Rebel Homemaker, is a collection of recipes and considerations about food, design, parenting, gardening, and more. The recipes she wrote together with cook and friend Pilar Valdes mix the super easy and the more elaborate, but the common thread is food that nourishes, as these four easy recipes that are just right for the start of the new year demonstrate.
She wrote the book in the first year of the pandemic, and in it she often reflects on how happy she is to have access to healthy food and praises those who fed and cared for others during the Covid crisis.
Barrymore, who enjoys getting her hands dirty and loves carbohydrates (especially a bowl of pasta), says her favorite food is “any breakfast my daughters make for me. With different edibility. “
