Blackstone Co-Founder's Daughter Debuts Cookbook For People Who Hate The One Percent

"It has to do with hating the one-percenters."

Author:: Bess Levin
Updated:: Jan 14, 2019
Original:: Jun 15, 2016

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Holly Peterson is the daughter of Blackstone co-founder Pete Peterson and the ex-wife of ex-Goldman banker Richard Kimball. In 2007, she wrote a book called The Manny, about male nannies and the rich moms that love them. Now, she's penned a cookbook about eating outside, a movement she says was inspired by those bastard 1 percenters.

Last month, the author of the novels “The Manny” (2007) and “The Idea of Him” (2014) came out with “Smoke and Fire: Recipes and Menus for Entertaining Outdoors” (Assouline), in response to a trend she saw toward more casual entertaining. “It has to do with hating the one percenters,” she theorized. Place cards and four-fork settings have gone the way of the ostrich Birkin bag; this summer, Ms. Peterson will be more likely to invite friends over for a buffet of grilled corn and rosemary-infused vodka than a seated fête in formal dress. “I think having airs is very passé and very ‘Housewives,’ ” she said. “It’s much cooler to be casual.”

The Eating Is Easy in Holly Peterson’s Open-Air Kitchen [WSJ]

Are your pants getting a little tight? Have you become convinced mirrors have a personal vendetta against you? Are you too distracted by the rolls spilling over your pants to trade? Do you find yourself veering off course in your letters to investors to talk about your love handles? Is it only a matter of time before you lose your firm billions and/or take down the entire market because your fingers are so big they span four keys each on the keyboard? Do you want to do something about it but are repulsed by the idea of healthy eating and exercise and also know yourself well enough to realize that there is no way you're going to be able to stay strong if everyone around you is eating delicious fried food at lunch and sooner or later you, a usually pretty mild-mannered guy, will be leaping across a row of Bloomberg terminals and threatening to kill a coworker (and meaning it) unless he hands over Ho Ho now? Then round up your tubbiest colleagues and tell them they're in for a real treat. Eric Helms, who founded the four-year-old Cooler Cleanse company with the actress Salma Hayek, says office cleansers now make up 30 percent of his business, and in the last year he has hired three customer-service employees just to handle the details of them. He said there has been a “huge increase in popularity” of cleansing with co-workers in the last year, which he credits to juice diets being more mainstream. “Everyone knows someone who’s done one, and they realize they’re a lot easier to do with colleagues during the workweek,” he said. “People want to indulge” — not sip celery — “on weekends.” Recent six-juice-a-day-dieters include employees at Merrill Lynch and the Carlyle Group, she said. In May, Citigroup began offering BluePrintCleanse in some of its Manhattan cafeterias, a spokeswoman said...About two-thirds of cleanse clients over all are women, but corporate cleanses “commonly skew toward men, especially traders, investment bankers and lawyers,” said Jina Wye, director of sales and marketing for BluePrintCleanse, founded in 2007 by two former Hudson Hotel bartenders looking to swap their poisons. (Mr. Helms said 90 percent of his male customers are part of groups.) Ms. Wye said: “These Type-A men have an all-or-none perspective. If they’re going to commit, they do it whole hog.” Most popular among male en masse cleansers: the Excavation cleanse, described on the Web site as “the most intense.” And if you want to really crank things up a notch, consider gauging interest in a group colonic to top things off. Cleansing From Cubicle To Cubicle [NYT] Related: I’m afraid I might tell her to buy a gun and just shoot me before the fat and the cellulite strike again.

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