You guys, I found literally the best GOOP quote ever.

"It's also a good idea to figure out now which items you'll have to get from a specialty store, as you don't want to be standing in the middle of Whole Foods on Christmas Eve realizing they don't in fact carry Herbs de Provence salt. (Nightmare)."

I love getting to feel a little haughty about the oh-so-ironic punctuation mistake at the end there, too.

Anjali Mullany

Still love GOOP.

Anjali Mullany

I want to be the kind of person who prints out a beautiful bespoke menu for all of her guests at dinner parties.

Anjali Mullany

"Figure out which cutlery and dishware you’re going to use for the occasion (if you have more than one option) and set them aside so you won’t have to wash them last minute." I feel that parenthetical comment indicates personal growth, and might indicate the content of a future Be newsletter.

Meena Hart Duerson

GUYS let's have a GOOP dinner party. Don't worry, I already own the cookbook.

Anjali Mullany

A very GOOPy Christmas.

Libby Brittain

Only if we can have bespoke, hand-embossed 100% recycled paper menus done by some fabulously chic little woman in a fabulously chic little store somewhere in the West Village or Williamsburg.

Anjali Mullany

And disposable linen napkins.

Libby Brittain

Metaphysical Gwynny questions:

But ARE WE our father's daughters?

Libby Brittain

Also I don't understand the purpose of a ceramic fortune cookie? Why are they "kind of brilliant" for entertaining?

Meena Hart Duerson

In all fairness to Gwyneth, the only thing I have ever made out of her cookbook was delicious (chicken + dumplings). also just reading it makes me feel better because it's so clean and pretty looking.

Libby Brittain

These little diagrams also slay me. Because, in your shabby chic robin's egg blue cupboard, you will of course have nothing else besides decanted olive oil, latke supplies, and several different types of oversized root vegetables.