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Gwyneth Paltrow via last.fm

To “nourish the inner aspect”, Oscar winner Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) suggests eating from “gourmet taco trucks” in the latest newsletter of her blog “GOOP—nourish the inner aspect”.

She discloses in this blog: “I spent most of last spring and summer in Los Angeles doing lots of work and eating some incredible food...from the new phenomenon of the gourmet taco truck.” Her favorites: “La Estrella Taco Truck” in Los Angeles and “Kogi Truck” which offers “tofu on great corn tortillas” topped with “sesame magic” tacos and whose “kimchi quesadillas are also killer”.

Paltrow wants us to eat at “Church and State” where she had “concoction of vodka, cucumber, sage leaves and other surprises” and she comments that “it was the best drink I’ve ever had”. She wants us to try “Devil’s Chicken”  at “Tavern” and “bacon-chocolate bar” at “Animal”. For drinks, she wants us to go to “Varnish” for “serious, thoughtfully prepared cocktails”.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has criticized Paltrow’s blog for mostly being too materialistic and indulging in very mundane things and shallow substances dealing with temporal and external pleasures, and catering to “outer” while claiming to “nourish the inner aspect.” 

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that the idea of foraying into “inner aspect” was wonderful, but he did not comprehend why Paltrow wanted to market a product with an entirely different label. Although the tagline of GOOP is “nourish the inner aspect”, there were not many deep spiritual and philosophical thoughts in it, which were essential part of “nourishing” the inner self. It was very “external”, Zed added. He offered to help Paltrow, if asked.

Ancient Hindu scriptures Upanishads indicated that finite things could not calm an infinite thirst because the delight lied in the infinite. We could not fill the hollowness with outer materials. We should aim at uniting with Self, described as sat-chit-anand (absolute existence, pure consciousness, outright bliss), Rajan Zed pointed out interpreting the scriptures.

GOOP is said to be a name carved from 36-year old Gwyneth Kate Paltrow’s initials, who is also sometimes known as “part yogini”.