On Monday night, George Clooney, Amal Clooney and George’s mom Nina all went out to eat at Patsy’s Italian in NYC. You can see the photos from their outing here – it looks like Amal is wearing bellbottoms? If not, those are some significantly flared pants. Anyway, I didn’t think this outing was tremendously noteworthy until I saw this E! News story about how the food. I LOVE food stories. And then I noticed the kicker at the end, about Amal and whether she cooks. It’s pretty amazing.
George Clooney was surrounded by beautiful women at his favorite Italian restaurant in New York Monday night, but there was something missing…CARBS! A source tells E! News exclusively that while George’s wife Amal Clooney and mom Nina Clooney happily noshed on breads and pasta at Patsy’s Italian Restaurant, the actor himself “said he’s watching his weight” and mostly avoided them altogether.
Fortunately, for the 53-year-old Oscar winner, the restaurant has some delicious menu options that don’t include the starchy stuff! According to a source, George chose to start with a “tre-colore salad” (arugula, endive and radicchio) and then dined on on “chicken tre-colore” (chicken over salad) for his main dish. Amal started off with a house salad—hold the tomatoes! The human rights lawyer was overheard telling executive chef and Patsy’s Italian Restaurant co-owner Sal Scognamillo that she “doesn’t eat tomatoes.” Apparently, though, Amal’s not opposed to tomatoes in all their forms, because a source tells E! News her main entree was penne pasta “with a spicy marinara sauce.”
Fortunately for George, he didn’t completely miss out on carbohydrates. According to a source, his table was “sent an assortment of desserts, and he had a bite of one.” Bummer for him that was all, but hey, that meant more to go around for Amal, Nina and two of her pals, who’d apparently enjoyed a “girls’ day” in the city leading up to dinner.
George’s mom, a former beauty queen, is actually the one who introduced him to Patsy’s Italian Restaurant. The actor was reminded of his family’s history with the eatery last night when Chef Scognamillo presented him with a brand-new copy of Patsy’s Italian Family Cookbook.
Inside the cookbook, which just became available to the public today, there’s a quote from George acknowledging mama Clooney had good taste long before he did! “Since I have a picture of my mom eating at Patsy’s when she was pregnant with me, I can honestly say that I’ve been going to Patsy’s since before I was born,” he says. “It’s been a great part of my life ever since.”
According to an onlooker, George showed his copy of Patsy’s Italian Family Cookbook to Amal, and she had the perfect reaction. “Are you expecting me to cook?” she asked. “I don’t cook!”
This story has absolutely everything for someone like me. A) It involves food, B) I can judge Amal for not eating tomatoes (hahahaha), C) It involves a man being on some kind of low-carb diet for a mysterious reason (his back?) and D) It involves a new wife telling her new husband something very special: BITCH, I DO NOT COOK. Classic.
But now we know why George looks so pained when they’re constantly going out to eat. She probably doesn’t even know how to boil water. How is she supposed to make him some soup? That’s all he really wants in this world. SOUP.
Photos courtesy of PCN, Fame/Flynet.
George has really aged a lot over the past few months. He must be in quite a bit of pain with his back problems
Either that or he’s stressed as hell wondering if he’s made a huge mistake – which I think he has. She is nowhere near as sweet as any of his exes. He only married her bc HE is insecure about his own intelligence.
He did this little outing to help sell the book that the restaurant just published.
More using this relationship to sell something. First (and always) his tequila and now this book. GC must get a cut of the royalties.
I hope Amal was more gracious when offered the book than has been reported.
I don’t know, I love what she said. I think it is funny. Even if she wasn’t joking I have a few friends who won’t cook either and have all told their partners similar things
I still think he married her because his own image had become a joke, which was highlighted when the world viewing audience of millions got the Tina Fey joke and laughed at HIM.
It sounded like typical couple banter.
It’s amazing how what is clearly a wife lightly teasing her husband can be turned into a tabloid story.
I couldn’t agree more. My ex-bf who GC reminds me a lot of…married some woman with what he considered a “big job”…(not nearly what Amal has) and I know in my heart of hearts…he married her because it makes HIM look smart.
I believe GC has done the same thing. George knew he was looking like the laughing stock of Hollywood with all the young arm candy…so he stumbled on this one…and knew it would reduce all that previous mockery with a jaw dropping “how did he land her?” She sounds like she will needs lots of help becoming a wife and a mom…altho they can afford to have a cook, nursemaid, nanny and the likes.
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It does not help that for a few months leading up to the Amal courtship it was said if George seriously wants to run for a public office he needs to have a steady relationship with a woman of higher standing than his award show dates.
It was openly speculated she would be a lawyer or have a career in some type of humanitarian work. Then Amal comes about, the answer to his woes.
Who’s to say what the deal is here. I’m just restating long cemented rumors that were supported by actions 😉
Good God. George running for office? Any office. Say it aint so. Sadly, he would probably get the popular vote and Amal is definitely looking like the Jackie O to his JFK…in his mind.
Or a political move, which was pretty moronic based on her background. I think what is lacking in Mr. Clooney is not intelligence, but rather, sanity.
George looks terrible. I never understood the hype with him, he didn’t appeal to me, I didn’t feel his charisma, but yes I could see He was definitely an extremely handsome guy.
George just looks weathered now.
Amal’s response to not cooking is hilarious, but George should have discovered all this before marriage, maybe. I hope George is not trying to change her now, it won’t work, besides George has cooks.
I don’t think these two knew each other well at all when they married. It still looks a bit strained when they are together.
P.S. Amal seems to love the cameras. Also Her skirts are a bit too short Imo
If George is going to marry “internationally”, then he needs to step it up when it comes to his garden jeans…not a good look!
I’m with her. I hate cooking but have to feed my husband on a daily basis. Eating out in my city, even fast food, is just too expensive to do more than once a week. I envy Amal…..she actually doesn’t have to cook. I’m envious but certainly not jealous….it would be childish to have that emotion.
Me eitehr, except I don’t even think he’s handsome. He’s doofy to me. When he was young, I like his thick mop of brown hair, but I’ve never found him attractive, let alone sexy. And, his choices for decades wreak of insecurity. Gross.
I can tell you right now, back pain can do a number on you. I dealt with back pain for six months. I tried physical therapy (which included stim for the pain) and it did not help. The visit to the doc where we decided to try cortisone shots in the epidural space in the spine (and it worked), my doc looked at me and said “You’re really in pain aren’t you?”. It was that evident. So if he is having major back pain it can be evident in his look. As far as her not cooking, it doesn’t surprise me.
In one of his interviews, it was reported that he talked about considering taking his own life because he was in so much pain. Apparently, he had some major back surgery to fuse his spine and is still on medication. Must have been awful.
Rumor has it, he injured his back during dominatrix play with Stacy Kiebler. That’s also supposedly how he broke his arm a few years back. They say he likes pain and takes it too far…used to. I don’t think he is physically capable at this point.
@ JJ
I read it happened while filming one of his movies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/george-clooney-contemplated-suicide_n_1092154.html
I can keep ripped look I slave away for at gym only when I give up carbs…so I feel his pain. But I never set foot in an Italian restaurant if I happen to be on a no carb diet, the temptation would kill me.
God she has great hair.
The pictures at DM are pretty bad IMHO. She’s back to toddler clothes – just more expensive! She’s wearing a strange leopard print coat (hope it’s fake!) with pale wash bell bottom jeans. Did the stylist quit?
Yup she is back to her tween looks, just more expensive……but at least she’s back to her own style and not letting George totally remodel her tastes, even if it’s bad
Belle Epoch, I also saw that pic on DM – she looks like my Bengal cat.
The coat reminds me of my moms bathrobe.
She has great extensions added in.
It was very obvious at her GG appearance, she adds extensions, several people were talking about how ratted the extensions were and you could see the weaved weft shelfs from some camera angles.
Links? Wiglet Watch is not exclusivve to royalthreads 😉 Travolta gets the same treatment only it’s not guessing with him.
Vroom! 😉
Oh, I’m sure George can cook himself some soup. With a big salad on the side.
If he wants soup so bad, he can make it himself. This is not the 50’s. Team (non-cooking) Amal. 🙂
1+ ….. I always said if I get married again the man must know how and accually cook. Hubby number one went right from his mommy taking care of him to me taking care of him, and in 12 years I cook everyday several times a day. That crap was cute in the beginning but as the babies came it pissed me off. Cook your owe dang soup, and make sure there’s enough for me ! Lol
Tell me about it. I enjoy cooking, but when you’re supposed to do it everyday…it gets unnerving.
I love to cook, but it’s hard for me to do so. thankfully I married a man that not only loves to cook but create his own dishes too & cook for family & guests. 20 yrs of bliss. 😊
Touche!
Me too. My Mr does cook but its always something like kraft dinner and hot dogs, or opens up a tin of soup. I do homemade and don’t appreciate his offerings so I wind up doing most of the cooking myself. And I get sick of it.
In my house, the person who is home first is responsible for dinner. When it is Mr. Fanty’s days to be home early and pick up the kids, I expect a meal waiting for me when I get home, and vice versa.
Wow that sounds good but that’s still a no go at my house. Hubby number one once made noodles with no water and destroyed the microwave. I called his mom and told her my purchase has a defect and I wanted a refund, she laughed and said that the no return policy was on the marriage license, she knows what’s she did! That’s why my 10 year old son helps me cook before he runs off for his power ranger marathons.
I would be hiding in the garage every day if that was the rule at my house! My husband actually cooks, but he enjoys it, and I don’t particularly.
That’s the way we roll too. I had no idea how lucky I was! (Let’s not talk about cleaning duties, however.)
+2 (and 1000 more). Non-cook here! :)))
I cook but when I’m busy it’s boyfriend who does it, otherwise we go out.
With all his money he can hire a personal chef.
It wouldn’t be news if a career driven man said “I don’t cook.” She has been focused on her career (past tense is more appropriate here, I think), and there are some people that prefer the convenience of take out at the end of a 14 or 16 hour day, especially in a big city
I enjoy cooking but find it really off putting when it’s expected of me because of some gender role nonsense. You go conquer the world Amal, if George needs a soup he knows where the kitchen is.
Anyone can make “Stone Soup”.
I like to cook, but I’m not very good at it. Thank goodness my husband can and does cook. My son is actually a very good cook as well.
Thank you!! My sentiments exactly! I don’t think she’s forbidding. George fro making himself soup!
That would stink to go to Patsys and not be able to enjoy some carbs! I wonder if he’s preparing for a role and needs to be lean.
I hate plain tomatoes too, but sauce or soup, great. Hey, stars ARE just like us!
same here! raw tomatoes are the worst. my husband eats them like an apple and it gags me. amal “hold the tomato” clooney is my super skinny spirit animal.
I can’t judge her about not cooking. My husband is the cook in our family, and a fantastic one to boot! Now, I’m not saying I don’t *ever* cook, but not nearly as much as he does. And as much as I’d like to judge her for not liking tomatoes, I can’t. We recently gave our son his first taste of tomato and he spit it out in disgust! He loves tomato sauce, but fresh tomatoes? Nope. My husband and I looked at each other like “this can’t be our son.” Hopefully that’ll change as he gets older. 😉
When he’s a little older, help him grow a crop of cherry tomatoes and see if that encourages him. It worked with me at the tender age of 40 years old !
I have a son who won’t eat fresh tomatoes but loves them cooked. I have another son who will eat bread and ham but if you put the ham on the bread he won’t touch it. Both are grown up and haven’t changed where this is concerned.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who doesn’t eat tomatoes but loooves tomato sauce on pretty much everything (especially ragù).
It’s a textural thing, right? I can’t stand the feel of tomatoes in my mouth and won’t eat them but I love tomato soup and tomato sauce. I know lots of other people who are the same way.
I’m exactly the same. No raw tomatoes, no way, now how, thankyouverymuch. And suddenly Amal doesn’t seem quite as obnoxious as she has recently.
It’s a textural thing for me as well. I like green beans but not string green beans, it feels like hair is going down my throat. I’m like that with a lot of food. It’s all about texture.
I will only eat raw tomatoes if they are chopped fairly well, or if they have ALL the pulp and seeds scooped out. I can’t deal with the texture of the pulp and seeds.
I can’t eat fresh tomatoes – they cause gastritis. However, once they’ve been cooked, I can eat all I want – pizza, pasta. Go figure.
Yes, me too.
Me too. I love tomato puree and tomato sauce (no chunks) and all that but I just cannot with raw tomatoes. I think it’s mostly the texture and a little bit the raw tomato flavor.
My parents adore tomatoes and served fresh sliced tomatoes with every meal the whole time they’re in season. I just can’t though. They think I’m nuts.
I hear you about the raw tomato taste. Even when I take them off of sandwiches and stuff, I can still taste it! Ick. And I’ve tried many kinds over the years, hoping my tastes would change, but nope.
It took me 30+ years to like raw tomatoes, and now I cannot stop eating them! When my children tell me they don’t have to taste something because they tried it before and didn’t like it, I ask them how long it took me to like tomatoes. They don’t like this fact about me.
Ditto! Hate the squishy squashy texture of tomatoes – and that gellatenous stuff inside? Don’t even get me started. But, I loves me some marinara. I won’t even eat salsa unless it’s been pureed. No chunks for me.
The only tomato product I like is ketchup and oh yeah, tomato sauce on my pizza. Otherwise no thank you.
It really irks me when people say they don’t eat something, but then eat it in another form. She should say that she doesn’t eat FRESH tomatoes! My boyfriend does the same thing; he won’t eat a fresh tomato, but having tomato sauce in dishes is okay with him – but he says he doesn’t like tomatoes. (Or people who say they’re vegetarian, but eat fish. At least there’s an “ovo lacto” vegetarian type who consume milk and eggs.) Ugh!
She’s only now telling him that she doesn’t cook? Just how little are they spending time together? He should already know that about her!
As for him not eating carbs, y’all have had other articles in which Amal allegedly told him that he needed to lose weight. How miserable it would be to marry someone who doesn’t love you, no matter your size.
The term for a vegetarian who eats fish is pescatarian. I haven’t eaten beef, pork or chicken in 26 years, but will occasionally have fish. I call myself vegetarian because I think I’ve earned it AND no one knows wtf a pescatarian is.
What Sarah said. I’m in the same pescatarian boat.
Oh interesting, Sarah123 and M.A.F.!
I would want you to tell me you are pescatarian so that I would learn something, which I now have. lol 🙂
As to the fresh tomato “discussion”. I am an experienced gourmet cook (not kidding). I will only eat fresh tomatoes when they are picked in full season and prefer heirloom tomatoes, again in full season. I love beefsteak tomatoes, the real thing – vine ripened. I make a Caprese salad with fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, aged balsamic vinegar and olive oil which I eat breakfast lunch and dinner as long as I have the tomatoes. However, I abhor those tomatoes that one finds at the grocery store – they all taste like cardboard. Perhaps if the masses went to their local farmer’s markets and sampled “real” tomatoes they would not have a bad opinion of the uncooked tomato.
She sounds like an insufferable brat, based on that comment alone. I hope there was more to it, like she acknowledged and complimented his mom’s success first and the cooking comment came after as a joke.
+1
Eh. He’s an actor and he’s filming. He can’t eat whatever he wants. It’s not just women who get the carb bloat. Remember when Brad wasn’t acting and he got a serious case of the carb face? And then he started shooting Fury and everybody was like, “oooh I wonder if he’s done something, he looks so much better!” when all he probably did was lay off the bread.
Yes, I heard he was filming something.
No fresh tomatoes? All the more for the rest of us! 🙂
Love fresh tomatoes. I eat them like apples. Heirloom tomatoes with a good balsamic..nothing better. I have a friend who hates fresh tomatoes (but eats pizza with tomato sauce) and I hate mushrooms ( don’t eat fungus). He would give me the tomatoes and I would give him the mushrooms when we ate out. We were a great pair at meals, no food wasted.
That’s how I feel, @vava! I used to hate tomatoes when I was kid but now I’d nom them every day!
@jen2 – if they’re store bought, no thanks. But fresh from the garden? YES!
He must be in pain. Lately he consistently has this look on his face that he’s not feeling well.
I went to the link for ‘more pictures’. I was impressed when I saw him take a moment to thank the man by name that opened the door of the restaurant for him. I used to work in this swank hotel that had a lot of celebrities coming in. You’d be amazed how very few of them would take a moment to thank and know the name of the people that serve them.
Sure she doesn’t cook and doesn’t eat either! Makes sense!
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
Then he should make his own soup. His back is sore, not broken.
Lol +1
I hate raw tomatoes and thought I was the only one. I love sauce, ketchup, and could no way live without carbs.
I don’t like fresh tomatoes either ,but I do like sun dried tomatoes in olive oil.
I thought George knows how to cook…
He seems to be in a lot of pain.
I don’t know if that’s her case, but I side eye anyone who can’t cook anything.
I feel like people who say that they “can’t” cook, have just never really tried to cook.
…or am I giving them too much credit?
My BF claims that he can’t cook but he watched me make a kale dish and he was able to replicate it perfectly for himself at home.
Actually, the other day I asked him if he was still making it for himself and he said “no, I kept burning the kale” so maybe disregard what I said above.
*coughs*
I’ll see myself out now.
No, I agree. People who say they can’t cook just haven’t tried to do it.
Reading everyone’s comments here, I think I’m going to tell my husband that he needs to try and cook me something, and by that I mean, not pull out the iPad to order delivery.
When we say we can’t cook, it means we can’t make food taste good for other people, not that we don’t know how to turn on the stove.
I like the taste of char, but I don’t expect others to.
I think for a lot of people it’s just that they don’t want to put the time and effort into it. Even if you’re really bad….if you put the time into learning how to make a few key dishes, then you can cook. And as long as it isn’t super complicated and you UNDERSTAND the directions….anyone can cook basic recipes. And it’s not really a bad thing–I think sometimes it’s a self esteem issue. If you’re told constantly you can’t cook by people you love, then what’s the point in trying?
Cooking is usually a lot of trial and error. These are people who’ve just never been taught and have no clue how to do anything w/out a recipe. That’s okay. They can learn by starting with recipes. My best advice to people learning or wanting to learn to cook is simply “stay in the kitchen while you’re cooking.” I’m always surprise by people who think they can just leave food cooking on the stove and are surprised when they come back in a few to find it burned, over thickened, whatever. You can not leave your food – unless you’re baking – that’s a different story.
I don’t think people are incapable of cooking either. I can teach anyone how to make my awesomely delicious spaghetti sauce with all fresh ingredients!!
Or some people just don’t enjoy cooking. I know how to cook and bake, but I don’t find it particularly enjoyable.
I CAN physically cook, but I hate it and I don’t make food taste good or look presentable. I cook for my family because it is a necessity because I don’t have a million dollars to eat out or get my own chef.
But I generally say I CAN’T cook because I seem to be missing that part that makes cooking somewhat intuitive. I can follow a recipe but if the slightest error happens I can’t get it back on track. I can’t substitute and I am not creative.
It’s kind of the same with singing – sure I can sing but I sounds terrible , so I say I can’t sing.
I don’t think these statements are meant to be taken so literally.
soup or that pre cooked pudding in cups. There’s always jello.
Instead of the long vent I started with, I’ll just give a thumbs up to Naddie above.
Most of the reports with direct quoting say she declined the book and, by my lights, was simply obnoxious about it.
When offered the book by the restaurant owner – “What, you think I cook? I don’t cook! You expect me to learn?”. Now, some folks don’t cook and don’t want to learn, fair play. Personally cooking is a form of relaxation for me. I sometimes dream of jacking it all in and opening a wee restaurant – then I remember that would make cooking WORK. But for some (and, in Amal style – I don’t genderise! And don’t expect me to learn to!) it’s not their bag.
The obnoxious is in her being so aghast at the mere suggestion she might cook in her first response. As if, because she is Amal, the very idea someone would think it possible is ridiculous. That smacks of her whole superior (as she sees it), entitled, and Princess attitude.
Also, I spend a fair bit of time in Italy and know the culture. This might have been passed off and laughed off out of politeness BUT it will have been side eyed afterwards. Unless US Italians are markedly different in their love and respect of being hospitable? Just declining to take the gift itself is generally ignorant.
You have a point and Amal has probably been to Italy many times and still doesn’t know how seriously they take their food?
For them cooking is not “work” but joy and art. Well, not for all of them but for many.
You don’t have to agree but saying “I don’t cook” is kind of tone deaf. Oh, well. There are bigger problems in the world.
I don’t think that’s just an Italian thing, most people anywhere would find that sort of behaviour obnoxious.
That said, who knows how accurate the report is or in what sort of tone she made the comment.
Italian American here: take the book with a smile even if you’ve never cooked in your life. We take food and hospitality very seriously.
Exactly, once my cousin refused the offer of an (after the bill was requested) limocello in a restaurant in Italy. The crestfallen look of the host still gives me 3am sweats. I love the Italian approach to hospitality and feel Amal’s reported rudeness would not have reflected well.
Giving a gift is something people do with pride. For someone who travels internationally, she should know that. I go to meetings hosted in a person’s home country with groups and one of the first things is a gift exchange. Many times when I receive the gift, I am thinking “what the hell am I supposed to do with this” while smiling and saying, “thank you very much”. If the story is true, it is the height if rudeness and snobbery. Hopefully, it is not.
I don’t cook either and I don’t think it is a wife’s responsibility, but accepting the gift does not say you are obligated to do so. It is probably, in the chef’s eye, a wedding gift and everyone gets things they don’t want, but they still write thank you notes.
Perhaps she should have replied that their chef would be so pleased…
I am absolutely astonished at the number of people who don’t like fresh tomatoes!! 😀
Ha…was going to say the same thing. Love fresh tomatoes, but I want them to be very firm. Nothing better than a burger with a fresh, crisp tomato, lettuce, etc.
Greenhouse tomatoes and tomatoes produced on industrial scale taste very different from real tomatoes, though. When I moved to the US I couldn’t eat tomatoes here for 10 years until I forgot what the real ones grown in the ground and ripened taste like. Maybe it is the case here, who knows.
I still can’t eat many things in the Us like yogurt , for example, unless it is home made.
@EN, yes, taste-wise, there is a huge difference. I was just a bit taken aback that a fruit I adore (and grow a number of varieties of) and eat in huge quantities is so disliked by so many people in its natural form!
But yes, sun-ripened, gloriously rosy, richly fragrant and deliciously firm and sharp, straight from the garden, is the way to go. Can’t wait for summer!
Being raised in Scotland, weather wise, greenhouse is often the only option but tended well – still so tasty. And the smell… I only knew my grandad for my first five years but it was a treat to share greenhouse time with him. He had the thumbs to grow anything – even grapes, a real achievement in Scotland. The scent of good, fresh tomatoes still evokes him to this day. Like lots of good stuff when shopping – smell first.
Unfortunately I did not inherit his growing thumbs.
Ah, Heathering, I love your name and you sharing your memories. Oh, and I also love Scotland. Good times….
Hi Chrissy, thank you. Felt I might just be taken for wittering on a bit but I’m fortunate in having many fond childhood memories.
I take it from “good times”, you have some in Scotland. May I ask the wheres, whats, and whens? Either way, I always like when people have enjoyed time in Scotland.
EN – so true! The tomatoes my mom grows in her garden, that ripen on the vine, taste VERY different than hothouse tomatoes sold in the grocery store.
Another reason why people are saying they don’t like fresh tomatoes but do like tomato sauce, ketchup, etc. is because when the tomatoes are cooked down, often a lot of sugar is added, making it taste better to us.
E News has kind of white washed the whole thing. According to the NY papers and People the cookbook was given to her by the chef and she refused with the line I don’t cook. What do you expect me to learn? If true, that is very rude, and much different than a banter with your husband about cooking. Most people, non-cooks like me too, would have graciously accepted the chef’s new book.
Also just wondering, is she getting paid by Giambattista Valli? She is always wearing their clothes, some of them before they hit the runway.
Thanks for clearing up the comment she made further, That’s really rude the way she responded.
Why didn’t she just graciously accept it?
“… the cookbook was given to her by the chef and she refused with the line I don’t cook. What do you expect me to learn?”
Yeah that´s rude… from the chef!
I´m sorry but why feel people the need to “present” cookbooks to new wives who don´t ask for it? Just because Amal is now a wife doesn´t mean she has interest in cooking or has to cook for her husband. That shows that certain people still think women belong in the kitchen. She says she doesn´t cook and has no interest in cooking. Why is she the bad one in this story? Why not gift the book to George who loves italian food? Why has it to be the wife?
Apparently George has a blurb that he said in the book jacket, so I don’t think it was meant as a slap for feminism and women cooking, although I guess it could be. Depending though on whose account you believe People, or NY Daily and NY Post they all have a different take some say the book was presented to the family and she declined with her I don’t cook quote.
Either way I still say it is rude if this happened. It is not like someone is giving you a cookbook they just bought to a newlywed. You are at the Chef’s restaurant eating his recipes and he offers his new cookbook with a blurb from your husband, you take it graciously. Not sure you need to stand up for feminism there as I don’t think it was necessary or a slap against feminism. For all he knows you can give the book to your cook.
Still rude of her.
In her defense (ugh) I don’t eat raw tomatoes unless they’re cherry tomatoes. I like ketchup, pasta sauce and other tomatoy things but just flat out tomatoes cut into salad or eaten plain like with cheese, absolutely not. Something about the consistency.
Also, I really love her jeans. With a white blouse tucked in or something it’s really springy and chic (Jessica Alba rocks a great dark wash pair). That jacket though. Noooo.
To be fair, if I wanted to go out for dinner and drinks, I’d rather dine with Amal Clooney than Sophie Hunter. Can you imagine the conversations? With Amal you’d talk about world politics, the law, maybe if you were lucky…George’s dead pet pig. With Comet Sophie, you get…her “art.”
So, I’m on Team (no cooking) Amal. I love an educated woman, even if those pants are hideous.
According to reports, published and from local Oxford/London grapevine, Amal doesn’t converse, Amal me me pontificates. Also, more lately, didn’t Howard Stern reveal that when he was introduced to her last year she took nearly an hour to ask him anything about himself because her main topic was AMAL?
Not saying SH would be any better, mind, but I don’t know people who’ve experienced time with her in order to gauge. Amal once openly sneered at an opinion an old friend of mine shared in a social setting. Tried to take him down with some half-baked pop-philosophy babble until the rest of the company largely endorsed the substance of his take. Most disturbingly, in defensive response, she tried to pull a “well as a woman, HE would… ” type ego-saver. Given the company contained a number of well informed and accomplished women (in agreement with him) it showed her as even more immature and unwise as a debater/conversationalist. Just scuttlebutt but I respect the opinion of those from whom I’ve heard it. Also, she’s not as ‘liberal’ as is being made out in unguarded thought and opinion.
And, hair tossing is a long time standard.
That’s interesting, Heathering. Mainly because it also mirrors the way the very ego-driven Clooney deals with ‘conflict’.
I think they’re a very good match. 😉
It really irks me when people go on and on about themselves and never ask you or the person they are talking to a single question, or reciprocates in anyway. It’s the height of rudeness and selfishness to me.
Yes Howard said , she talked about Herself, who She represented or dealt with in court cases. She dropped some big names Gadaffi’s sons, etc…..talked about Herself for almost a solid HOUR Before she asked him ONE thing about himself!
It is a tough life to be such a well educated barrister and yet be unable to walk on your own without your husband holding your hand…literally…maybe an inner ear infection?….poor Amal.
If the report is true… Big if… Refusing a gift, whether book or anything is rude. I like Amal so I really hope this was not the case, with the cook or owner offering something and her turning it down. That being said, I am certain that if she does not cook, George knew this, and given their wealth, I doubt either of them draws straws in the morning to see who is making dinner. They can afford a chef or dining out every day, and speaking as the cook in our home, I would love to have that option! ( I enjoy cooking and baking but when you gave to make breakfast and dinner every day, plus lunches gorgeous school and lunch on weekends, there are moments you want to scream. I do, anyway.)
Actually, IMO, this is a PR thing from the Clooney camp , in response that Amal is too skinny,Amal eats and she eats carbs. Are Bell Bottoms back in? If they are. I have to get my old ones out of storage.
In my opinion, every adult should know how to cook. It just so happens that in our household, I’m the better cook. My husband is better at cleaning, and is very meticulous when doing so. We do what works for us! 😉
I agree about knowing how to cook. I mean, how much of lazy, privileged a person who can’t even fry eggs is? It’s not like fixing a TV, which you can actually live without.
Exactly! It’s a basic skill.
I think it depends on your definition of being able to cook. You can be fine with eating steamed vegetables, chicken, pizza, pasta etc. pp. However, I wouldn’t call that cooking. Cooking makes me think of complicated recipes and three-course meals.
I was actually talking about the most basic, like frying eggs or boiling water… My eye rolls for adult people who can’t do that. It’s even worse than folks who’s never washed a single dish (and this is pretty bad already).
I agree with you on that. It’s just so basic I don’t think of it when talking about cooking.
I agree, but that’s because I think people need to be self-resourceful. I also think people should know how to garden and sew…just because “what if?” I realize though that many people feel part of being successful is not having to do tedious things they’d rather not and being able to afford to pay for it. The problem with that for me, is that I am irritated by people, especially men, who can’t or won’t do anything remotely laborsome themselves. I am attracted to men who can fix their own shit and don’t need to call someone to service everything for them. Being reliant on others for every little thing that might get their hands dirty or cause them to try to learn something basic is a major turn off to me. Just my own preferences, so no need for anybody to jump me.
No jumping, I totally agree JenniferJustice. In fact it doesn’t matter so much if they actually have to be able to do these things as a daily. I’ve enjoyed being with men who, for reasons of career and whatnot, have rarely been without means to have all the scutty life chores done for them, BUT knowing they could when necessary – that’s the clincher for me.
Perhaps, I like the suited & booted who only I know could nip home and change the plug fuse so he can master gadgets and whip up a late supper. Also, I’m a “eyes, hands, and butt” woman so I like to think of the hands doing more than clicking fingers to order someone else to do. The eyes think, speak, and feel AND the butt… that’s more about me thinking and feeling, I guess.
PS – a guy who did the finger clicking thing – 5min with me, max!
PPS – hope I didn’t redefine “self-reliance” too much ^^^
Ha! I’m with you. But then I had a grandfather who told me to look at a man’s hands because you could tell at a glance if he did any hard work. We are small town midwesterners and he was of a generation that placed importance on self-reliance and not being afraid to get your hands dirty. It rubbed off on me.
And, um…who doesn’t like a nice butt? and thinking about and feeling one? Did I misinterpret that?
OK, here’s my tomato story. I don’t like fresh tomatoes either, and tomato juice makes me want to gag, even the smell of it gives me the vapours. Coincidentally, when my mother was expecting me she craved tomatoes and tomato juice, all the time. Gallons of juice and raw tomatoes. So I think I developed my dislike whilst still in the womb. I do eat tomato sauce and cooked tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, and love a good clamato Caesar.
Isn’t this comment by Amal being taken a little too seriously? To me, it comes across as faux outrage, ie. she was just being funny, possibly self-deprecating even? She may not cook much, or may be hopeless at it, or it may be a running joke between herself and Clooney who, apparently, really enjoys cooking.
I’m not keen on either of the Clooneys for various reasons but not sure this is a reason to dislike her.
She’s another one like Sophie Hunter imo, people look for reasons to dislike her. I don’t get it.
I get it about the carbs: I feel super bloated whenever I eat any bread or pasta AND gain weight much faster. So I try to avoid it as much as I can. Unless it’s in a dessert form, that I always have a little bit of.
George seems to cultivate some sort of inferiority complex, so he wanted (or was advised to have) a new image. With that came Amal, and I truly think he knows by now he made a huge mistake. As highly educated as she might be, she seems to lack social sense. When you are in an Italian restaurant, and are presented with this kind of gift, you take it with appreciation, whether you cook, or not. You don’t need to make a seemingly self-depreciating joke about something everybody already knows: cooking is for others, not for world-famous human right lawyers. It’s not just unfunny, it’s sad. But George didn’t really know her well before getting married, and it might have been wiser to give this wife-picking a bit more time, and consideration. I know for sure, there are highly accomplished women around who LOVE to cook and, more importantly, eat. With Amal, there seems to be so much PR hype, and so little content. It really seems that the only thing that interests her next to her (mostly imaginery) big time career, is insanely expensive fashion. And even there she doesn’t show any empathy, wearing fur/python leather. Well, George will have to deal with this, thank gawd 😉
+1
Can’t believe anyone goes to Patsy’s! Food is nothing special and service is awful. Was beyond disappointed on a past trip to NYC – kept seeing mentions in the NYPost and then – ugh. Service was so bad the waiter didn’t ask us if we wanted anything to drink – stuck with a G&T from bar while we waited for our table. What Italian resto isn’t pushing the vino?
So what if she doesn’t cook? Ridiculous to see all this outrage projecting on her. Georgie Porgie can damn well make his own soup if he wants it, or he has the money to get a chef anyway.
It’s not the problem that she can’t cook, but when offered a cookbook from the owner of the restaurant as a gift, why making snide remarks?
How old is he? He can’t make his own freaking soup? How did he survive as a bachelor?
She annoys me severely. I picture her to fit right in with those Beverly Hills sales clerks in Pretty Woman, looking down her nose at anyone daring enough to intrude on her space. In my head, I always pronounce her name like “anal”. And he’s a flipping moron for skipping on the way preferable women he’s dated in the past (not the recent past- Elisabetta and the last one were annoying too) that would have made way better wives. Now he has to pay for those mistakes with his own misery.
I’m usually the one who cooks no matter who’s home 1st. He’s fixing the house and doing some yard thing like wood stacking. Even if i’m exhausted and home later I will make dinner or make sure there’s leftovers. When I can’t he does this for me. That women are the cooks makes little sense. And there’s not much reason a person of either gender can’t know how to cook. Both extremes aren’t great.
These are not the pics from patsy’s..they’re a riot.. very old sailor on shore leave and the retro hooker he picked up. Funny stuff.
I don’t cook because I find it boring. It just never appealed to me.
She was just being witty. He knows she does not cook. I’m sure he never expected her to. They live in areas where they not only have lots of great take-out, but tons of places that deliver. I love to cook, and even I would be in Heaven if I had great food delivered to my door after a hard day’s work.
sounds like a joke to me. like something I would say.
I think because it’s spring time in Northern CA, I have eaten some really delicious raw tomato lately.
I’m a solicitor; I know the legal context/crowd. I have friends who’ve interned at the Hague etc on summer vacations and know of highly successful colleagues who have chosen academia and gone on to teach at top ranking law schools like Harvard and Cambridge. For the life of me, I cannot understand why this junior barrister is being heralded as the second coming in the media. She’s smart, no doubt. But human rights law isn’t particularly prestigious – pursuing it as a serious profession is kind of seen as a fanciful, unrealistic, and embarrassingly naive and idealistic, as human rights law is a huge grey area that’s often driven by political considerations. The fact that she’s managed to make a career out of it is great. But human rights law is usually pretty fringe within the legal profession. She’s about as smart as any other renowned lawyer out there, and certainly she’s no more powerful than the average lawyer. As a barrister, she merely reps clients. She’s not a powerful legal figure or even an influential one. Please look up Louis Arbour for that, or check out the Legal 500 etc lists for those lawyers who aren’t so media hungry as this somewhat ridiculous woman who constantly looks like she just swallowed the cream.