TALKING SNACK
It girl home cooks Chrissy Teigen and Alison Roman are in a Twitter feud. But the real drama should be settled in the kitchen! Here, Post staffers test out the cuisine queens’ most popular recipes — and reveal if they’re worth the hype
THEY’VE got beef !
Last week, recipe writer Alison Roman kicked off a foodie feud with her fellow millennial cooking icon, Chrissy Teigen. In an interview with the New Consumer, Roman slammed the supermodel’s lifestyle brand, Cravings.
“What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me,” said Roman, whose recent cookbook “Nothing Fancy” has become something of a culinary bible to the 30-something set. “She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her. That horrifies me . . . But like, who’s laughing now? Because she’s making a ton of f - - king money.”
Teigen — who’s not one to back down from an online fight — responded swiftly.
“This is a huge bummer and hit me hard,” the mom of two, who’s married to musician John Legend, wrote on Twitter. “I have made her recipes for years now, bought the cookbooks, supported her on social and praised her in interviews . . . Cravings isn’t a ‘machine’ or ‘farmed content’ — it’s me and 2 other women. I didn’t ‘sell out’ by making my dreams come true.”
Roman has since apologized twice to Teigen
— also via tweet.
“I’ve messed up,” Roman wrote. “I shouldn’t have used you/your business . . . as an example to show what I wanted for my own career. It was flippant, careless and I’m so sorry.”
On Monday night, Teigen finally replied to Roman’s second tweet-pology. “Thank u,” she wrote. “I just want it to be over.”
It’s debatable who won the Internet spat. But the real question is this: If millennials can only have one culinary hero, who’s got the better food?
As the Teigen versus Roman battle simmers on, Post staffers test out the cookbook authors’ most iconic viral recipes to see who comes out on top in the kitchen.