Cooking with Paris takes the joy out of cooking

The Washington Post

"Presented with her own ignorance, the Paris of <i>Cooking With Paris is unconcerned, incurious, and insistent on staying that way," says Emily Heil of Paris Hilton's new cooking show on Netflix. "There are times when this attitude crosses over from mere annoyance to something more problematic. When she hosts rapper Saweetie for taco night, Paris’s unwillingness to correct her pronunciation of Mexican ingredients seems particularly unpleasant. Cotija cheese is 'corrita,' she decides. 'What is a to-mah-tilly-oh?' she asks with a whine, but doesn’t seem particularly interested in the answer...But it also underscores the idea that cooking is reserved for moms, that the only reason one might want to make a delicious meal is to serve it to one’s offspring. I get that parents need to be able to fill the constantly gaping maws of their children, and they probably shouldn’t do it the way Paris feeds herself (in one episode, she snacks on spoonfuls of caviar). Still, cooking is for everyone, right? Paris isn’t selling anyone on the idea that time spent in the kitchen is pleasurable, or even that anyone can make something delicious. She is, however, hawking something. There’s usually a bottle of Zenwtr, the brand in which she is reportedly an investor, hanging around the kitchen." ALSO: What it's like to make one of the Cooking with Paris recipes.