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Why Lady Celebs Love Eating During Interviews

If you’ve read enough profiles of female celebrities, you notice a common feature: food. Above is a sampler platter, if you will, of starlets and the dishes they’ve reportedly chowed down during interviews:

• Zooey D slurped butternut squash soup (flickr/StacySpensley) while chatting with Glamour.
• Gwyneth chowed down pizza (flickr/kevinggessner) “with extra cheese” in front of Good Housekeeping.
• Mindy sported Spanx and munched on a BLT sandwich (flickr/dsgray16) with New York magazine.
• Lea Michele paired pizza with a kale salad (flickr/t-dubisme) for Marie Claire.
• Heidi Klum devoured caramel cheesecake (flickr/zingyellow!) before her Marie Claire cover photo shoot.

Stars! They’re just like us!

Or maybe not so much like us because there’s a good chance that these are all examples of DIPE, or Documented Instances of Public Eating. That term was coined by Hollywood publicist Jeremy Walker in reference to these sometimes constructed efforts to humanize these A-listers. As much as the adoring public gawks at their physique, there’s still an effort to communicate that while beautiful, these gals are still relatable.

The New York Times expounds:

In a news media arena where an actress like Keira Knightley is taken to task for her bony angularity while Ms. Hendricks of “Mad Men” is fetishized for her throwback curves, it is clear that the topic of how beautiful women eat has become something of a chronic national obsession. Any individual DIPE may not shed much light on the inner life of the latest actress, but collectively, their frequency seems to tell us something about societal standards, judgments and yearnings.

And interestingly, the most common place to spot DIPE? Men’s mags.

For decades, a dependably saucy pop-culture trope has been the image of a woman wearing nothing more than a man’s oxford shirt. The implied suggestion was: she’s wearing your clothes. Lately, for whatever reason, the male gaze seems to have found a stirring corollary: she’s eating your cooking.

newyorker:

For this week’s Food Issue, the duo TrujilloPaumier spent two days photographing the markets, restaurants, and cuisine of Oaxaca for Calvin Trillin’s piece “Land of the Seven Moles.” “Oaxaca is a culinary explosion of past memories. When enjoying a chile relleno in the market, I can hear my sisters and mother talking; my mother questioning my sisters if they have put enough piloncillo or canela in the atole, or her calling Eva for more leña. These memories are confronting and familiar beyond belief,” Joaquin Trujillo, who spent his childhood in Ermita de Guadalupe, Mexico, told us. … Brian Paumier told us, “To eat in Oaxaca is eating how the Tolteca ate a thousand years ago—nothing has changed much but the introduction of European livestock. I am always first in line for the culinary time machine called Oaxaca.”

For more from the photographers, and a selection of their photographs: http://nyr.kr/Y1cSYx