Food fight what the Chrissy Teigen and Alison Roman dust up reveals Arwa Mahdawi
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The cookbook author sparked the wrath of the internet when she criticised Chrissy Teigen. She also revealed the rot in modern food culture
There is nothing certain in life except for death, taxes and the fact that if you pick a fight with Chrissy Teigen, cookbook author and Very Famous Person, you will not win. You will emerge bloody and humiliated. You will rue the day you were born. Alison Roman, cookbook author and Slightly Less Famous Person, found this out the hard way over the weekend.
For those of you who are spending your lockdown doing more fruitful things than scrolling through Twitter, a quick recap of the decline and fall of the Roman empire. It all started when the 34-year-old did an interview with The New Consumer where she said she didn’t aspire to capitalize on her fame by putting out a product line in the same way that Teigen and Marie Kondo, the organizing legend, have. Continue reading...