5. She knows how to eat.

Most of the time, GP is not actually cleansing her colon via kale juice cleanses and colonics. In fact, this former macrobiotic eater is a serious legit foodie. This is something we actually have in common. For seven years, I was a vegetarian and not the most adventurous eater. In college, turned off by the sheer volume of tempeh and tofu options in my hippie school's dining hall, I started eating meat again and a full-fledged love affair with food began. I imagine the same thing happened to GP when she discovered miso soup did not a full meal make. (This is not to say, of course, that you can't be a foodie and a vegetarian at the same time. I would, however, say it's pretty hard to be considered a foodie if you limit your diet to only raw foods.) I haven't yet cooked any of the recipes in Paltrow's cookbook My Father's Daughter, but now that I have resolved all of the ragey feelings brought on by the needless name-dropping that occurs in its pages, I can't wait to start. I want to molest this duck ragu with my mouth. Related: Behold, A Dramatic Reading Of Gwyneth Paltrow's Cookbook