Now that's what we call a thank you present. Last week, Jessica Seinfeld (wife of Jerry Seinfeld) went on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote her new cookbook called Deceptively Delicious. The cookbook has recipes for pureeing vegetables so you can hide them in your children's food: like spinach and carrots masquerading as a chocolate cupcake.
Anyway, the book became a bestseller immediately afterward, so Jessica sent Oprah 21 pairs of gorgeous shoes as a thank you gift because there "were no words." Many of the pairs were Christian Louboutin, so that makes this a very nice thank you gift -- in the $15,000 range.
You can see the video clip here.
Jessica's cookbook has child psychologists and nutritionists up in arms: some say that hiding vegetables in food does no good at all, that picky eaters eventually grow out of it and that you're lying to your kids. It also teaches them to eat lots of cupcakes instead of learning to like vegetables. Alternative suggestions were to just add some cheese to the vegetables or make carrot sticks and dip. Frustrated moms say if they don't get some vegetables or fruit into their kids, they're going to get scurvy or something.
This whole controversy reminds of Battle Eggplant on Iron Chef last night. Cat Cora pureed eggplant and put it in her famous chocolate brownies with a peanut butter and cream cheese frosting. Everyone thought they tasted great, but Cat Cora is an Iron Chef: she could make anything taste delicious. Certainly Andrew Firestone of The Bachelor seemed to enjoy them.
We can't really focus on the ethics of hiding vegetables in your child's macaroni and cheese right now, because we're still obsessing over Oprah's 21 Shoe Salute.
