"Taylor’s food indulgences were so legendary she even made it into “The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink” for her “legendary demands for Chasen’s chili” while on the set of “Cleopatra.”
"But as much as she overdid it at times, Taylor’s true love of food shined forth. Watch her in 1966’s Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as the boozy whoozy Martha, expertly salting and stripping bare a leftover chicken drumstick while sparring with George, played by husband number five, Richard Burton. There’s sheer joy in the eating as in the acting, and she didn’t care who knew it. How refreshing that is to see given all of today’s naysaying about food and total
obsession on size zero figures."
DIET COOKBOOK
In Elizabeth Taylor's 1987 diet book 'Takes Off' she talks openly about her well-publicized weight gain: how she went from famous and glamorous to famous and fatand, how she lost weight (and an alcohol problem) while gaining the self-esteem necessary to dieting and weight maintenance.
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