Why so many people are attracted to foods and recipes of celebrities sites

June 2, 5:43 PMSacramento Nutrition ExaminerAnne Hart

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Through fundraising, ranting, and hype about food, including all the gossip, media, and auctions, celebrities actually  fight hunger. A lot of dining out and cooking are done by celebrities to raise funds for charities. There are projects such as "The Meals On Wheels Chicago Celebrity Chef Ball."

Celebrities may show up at film festivals overseas or dine in a certain restaurant or discuss cooking at home to bring in money for charities or to celebrate the opening of a film festival. Radar Online featured an article back in December, 2008, "Lunchboxes of the Stars" that didn't show you what types of food celebrities are brown-bagging at noon, but instead emphasized the art and design on the lunchboxes. 

There's a humanitarian purpose to those designs, a celebrity's way to make a difference in the world and bridge that nexus by forming a connection with the public. According to the December 8, 2008 site, "Cameron Diaz painted her lunchbox green, with pictures on one side and environmental waste on the other." It's posted on Radar Online Exclusives  with a link to healthy foods. Why devote a Web site just to the lunchboxes?

It's all for charity. The more publicity, the more money may be raised to fight hunger through auctions of celebrities' decorated and autographed lunch boxes. America's corporate connections are linked to celebrity food sites. Rant, hype, buzz appeal, all have a force, a scientific rationale. Celebrity food gossip and news sites are simple and stunning. They are evidence that money can be raised by celebrity chefs, models, and stars of television and cinema.

Numerous celebrity-designed-and-signed lunchboxes were offered to raise money to fight hunger through an auction that ran through December 18, 2008. Other notables who have contributed art and signatures to lunchboxes include Rachael Ray, the cast of Gossip Girl, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Beastie Boys, Eva Mendes, and Mike Myers.

You can see them all at the Lunchbox Auction website.

See the Fit and Healthy site, which offers a headline, "Cameron Diaz vs. French Fries: Squash Recipe Wins." The article on the site notes that,  "According to People magazine Cameron Diaz loves French fries."

Have you ever asked why so many more people view online sites of celebrities and famous chefs to see what movie and television stars are eating or cooking in their kitchens? Or what celebrity chefs are discussing?

How come the masses don't click on the Web sites of food scientists, nutritionists, dietitians, biochemists, fitness trainers, or health professionals--unless, they, also are famous television celebrities? And why are recipes that include soda and candy snapped up by so many people just because celebrities snack on those items?

People want to use a system to make decisions. The crowd seeks a food nexus. Whatever stars cook for themselves, fly in, or order in restaurants offers an easy connection the audience has to status, power,  fame, and a taste of lifestyles of the rich.

Why are so many people desperate for not only food news, but medical records news of celebrities? See Tips at "LAist," a Web site about Los Angeles, as it spreads the news that Octomom's hospital has been fined $250,000, when "21 employees and two physicians improperly accessed records" of the Octo-mom.  And at a food LAist site, chefs now have public relations persons that email food bloggers.

The site article reports, "Will Kogi BBQ start getting more notoriety because of these awesome rants instead of their food?" There's a crowd-attracting title on the article, "Kogi BBQ Rant: 'Dear Hypesters, this shizz has GOT to STOP'." If you want to draw an audience to a headline, it has to have "buzz appeal." Celebrity chefs have more than mere public relations. They have 'rant' appeal.

Celebrities food-related objects must be 'awesome to raise funds in order to make a difference and help humanity.' Buzz appeal in celebrity kitchens is when a celebrity's pubicist or celebrity columnists put a 'spin' on news or gossip to place the celebrity in a position to show he or she is about caring and repairing for people and/or the world.

'Rant' appeal is when you, as a fan of a celebrity, cantillate at the lonely crowd without being a part of it.  The persona of the celebrity chef is marketed and promoted in the media as if it were a virtual reality avatar in an online world. Rant appeal consists of the one-liner headline. You need to promote your food and reputation, your chef's 'honor' by getting "awesome rants." The rant appeal news-monger is like a fountain bubbling over with the latest scoops on the celebrity's food tastes.

Celebrity food buffs as well as wealthy and famous chefs need 'rant' appeal as well as 'buzz' appeal. But sometimes online, what they get so much of is hype appeal. On social networks, there's too much hype and too little evidence. And what celebrities want most is validated evidence that what they do or make is valuable and has, most of all, lasting appeal.

Almost everyone wants to know what foods the stars like, how much it costs, and what that type of food is doing for the celebrities' figures. People click on celebrity information or gossip sites also to escape their own health problems or simply for enjoyment. When a chef with a TV show is making several million dollars each year, viewers want to know more.

People are attracted to sites such as Fave Foods of the Famous that feature the foods and recipes that celebrities actually like. The favorite foods of the famous are informative such as Paula Creamer talking about her favorite pink foods, where she shares a recipe for a Crystal Light Strawberry Banana Frappe.

Are these recipes really healthy for you in the long term?  Or can you eat them and then chew 20 walnuts so the sweets and fats from any type of frappes won't be absorbed so fast to cause that insulin rush? Other sites show restaurants that serve your favorite celebrities their favorite foods.

Some of those celebrities are not movie stars. They're famous chefs. The masses might be obsessed with knowing what celebrity chefs eat. What does expensive, restaurant-quality food really taste like?

There's even an online food network with "everything you want to know" about your favorite Food Network chefs, including Guy Fieri, Rachael Ray, Alton Brown, Paula Deen and Bobby Flay. You'll be able to view more of "everything you want to know" about your favorite Food Network chefs. Check out the site, Celebrities Eating Dot Com.

What about a restaurant that serves the favorite foods of various celebrities and capitalizes on the general public's obsession with knowing at the Favorite Foods of Celebrities site. Then there are the food forums. At theFood Network, view chef biographies, videos and recipes. 

If you want to read about the favorite foods of celebrities and restaurants serving the favorite foods of various celebrities that emphasizes the crowd's obsession with knowing what celebrities eat everyday, then there's the Favorite Foods of Celebrities site. The Food Network  site features the biographies and life stories of famous chefs, videos, and recipes. For example, the  Food Network offers, "Everything you want to know about your favorite Food Network chefs, including Guy Fieri, Rachael Ray,

Food Forums

eG Forums offers a site on the favorite and least favorite food of celebrities. You can read some of the reviews. More celebrities are on the Food Network Canada site. Of course, you can or can't resist looking at the Nasty Habits of Food Network Celebrities article written by Isabel Cowles, posted: April 15, 2009 05:00 PM at the Huffington Post site. A sentence from the article notes, "Food Network viewers be warned: your favorite celebrity chef is encouraging wasteful, unhealthy behavior from the grocery store to the plate." Check out the article.

Now, you'll want to view the Celebrities Favorite Recipes--Associated Content site. The article reports, "Have you ever wanted to eat like a celebrity? Now you can. Here's what your favorite celebrities are cooking in their kitchens. The article has a subtitle naming celebrities: Tom Cruise, Tim McGraw, Oprah, Dale Earnhardt & More. 

Famous Moms Recipes

Go see the Celebrity Cravings: Favorite Foods of Famous Moms site. It's at the Babyzone. It's about the intense food cravings of famous moms during their pregnancies. The site notes your favorite celebrities most-craved prenatal treats.

For example, the site explains, Angelina Jolie, while pregnant in Namibia, Africa, reportedly had an entire crate of her Reese's Pieces flown in directly from Hershey, Pennsylvania so she could satisfy her prenatal craving for Reese's Pieces, her favorite peanut butter candy. Yes, chocolate with peanut butter can become habit-forming for anyone, especially when pregnant.

Ethnic Food Favorites of the Movie and TV Stars 

There's even an online site dedicated to the "Favorite Greek Recipes of the Stars - Movie and Television". At the 1st Annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival in Los Angeles, television and movie celebrities talked about their favorite greek foods. It's posted in an article on the About.com site from Nancy Gaifyllia, for About.com, titled "10 Stars & Celebs Pick Their Favorite Greek Food". Check out the article which covers the first Los Angeles Greek Film Festival.   hosts "Romancing the Table: a celebration of life, love and food."

If you enjoy reading about Greek food, you'll find out that  Cynthia Daddona covered the festival for CelebrateGreece.com. For more information, see the Greek Islands Destination Cooking Class video filmed on location in Santorini, Greece.

As far as what type of Greek food the celebrities chose to eat, the article reports that Olympia Dukakis chose Grilled Octopus. See the article for more information and the recipe because there's a link on the article to the recipe for making flame-grilled octopus and an excellent photo of the food from Nancy Gaifyllia, for About.com. The site even gives the spelling in Greek, the pronunciation, and anything you want to know about the recipe.

At the Chef's Blade site, you can read the article, "Nasty Habits of Food Network Celebrities" that are environmental and nutrition 'nightmares.' Or check out the favorite foods and recipes from celebrities of the 1950s-1970s and beyond stars at Recipe Goldmine. Names include Bob Hope, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Eden, Burt Reynolds, Annette Funicello, Carrol Burnett, Ann Landers, and include more modern celebrities, such as Conan O'Brien.