Wow! 5million followers seems like a lot.

I'd never heard of her but googled for peanut butter chocolate bars recently and one of her recipes came up first. It wasn't what I had in mind but looked good and decadent and fine to bring to an office coffee potluck.

The recipe did not work. Even my kids -- who don't get enough chocolate to turn it down -- were critical and passed on the leftovers. (Should have read the reviews first! Because they would have warned me.)

Now, seeing this, I do wonder if there isn't enough actual taste testing. But, how can you possibly be a recipe developer with any success and not at least taste regularly?

Anonymous wrote:Her recipes are gross. Clearly a product of her upbringing.

I haven’t tried any, but friends love her. What do you mean?

Her recipes are gross. Clearly a product of her upbringing.

I don’t follow her closely, but I felt the article implied that she perhaps isn’t the one coming up with the recipes. Does her mom do that and she is the face? Reporter picked 2 recipes and she had an excuse for making something else, simpler. I’m sure the reporter didn’t pick a recipe that said it took 2 days. She never tastes her food. Great cooks and chefs can do that, but is that what she is? She is more focused on food styling than cooking. In the end, it said she was annoyed about people asking her technical questions. Wouldn’t she know more after creating new recipes almost daily and multiple cookbooks (which would involve trying lots of things that didn’t make it into the cookbook)?

I just read the NYT article… late to the party here but I feel the article was written with a lot of opinion and liberty calling out a successful woman. The opinions that her success is due to her WHITENESS and wealth is appalling. Then the conversation that she has an eating disorder because she is so thin and the accusations that she doesn’t eat her own recipes is based on a false narrative. When did it become acceptable for a women to comment on another women’s weight. If it isn’t ok to call out someone for being fat why would it be ok to call out someone who is to thin. Why is it ok for a person of color to make accusations and question the validity of someone’s skills, accuse them of cultural appropriation, and question one’s interpretation of her recipes? Admiring an art piece renders many different interpretations. Is that not acceptable!!! If a white person makes any mention of someone of color.. no matter the topic they are racist. This shit is out of hand. This article does nothing but tear Tiegan Gerard down with insinuations that she is a fraud and a fake! And… name one celebrity who has lived a normal life and with their successes has not gone out and purchased designer clothes, shoes and handbags. It’s a bit of a reach to attack every part of who she is as a person just because others do not have the same success as she has had.

I dont know anything about her but I love her recipes.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it would be even worse if she didnt reference the cultures she was inspired by- like Alison roman trying to pretend she invented chana masala by calling it her chickpea stew that she just dreamt up out of her head. I still cannot stand Alison roman and refuse to allow her to be rehabilitated. she's the worst kind of culture colonizer but hbh girl isn't that. she's just had no real exposure and I applaud her and her family for building her a life in the the constraints that she has.

so “chickpea stew” merits eternal cancelation but mangling pho does not? very very odd take.

“Chickpea Stew” got canceled for dissing Chrissy Teigen (the irony) and Marie Kondo at exactly the wrong moment.

I have no idea who she is but one best says she’s from Ohio. This explains a lot. I grew up learning the wrong names of tons of food. Chicken Cordon Bleue was called rolled up chicken, chop suey from a can was Chinese noodles, bolognese was meat sauce, marinara was red sauce, anything with pineapple was Hawaiian, anything in a taco shell or tortilla was Mexican,…you get the picture.

I'm not a HBH person but I'm aware of the site (in the same way i, like, know who Ree Drummond is but don't cook her recipes regularly), but even though this article was far from complimentary of her, I feel like it just boosts her profile. I visited for the first time after reading it and now have the salad I'm making for Thanksgiving.

I am a Half Baked Harvest fan and think TG seems like a kindhearted hardworking person , but I had to stop following her after some painful photos she posted this summer that clearly show her struggling. The juxtaposition of her (and her family's) livelihood as a food blogger while never eating the food she makes and sinking deeper and deeper into an ED was and is too hard to watch. I am rooting for her and hope she sees the other side of this.

Anonymous wrote:I think it would be even worse if she didnt reference the cultures she was inspired by- like Alison roman trying to pretend she invented chana masala by calling it her chickpea stew that she just dreamt up out of her head. I still cannot stand Alison roman and refuse to allow her to be rehabilitated. she's the worst kind of culture colonizer but hbh girl isn't that. she's just had no real exposure and I applaud her and her family for building her a life in the the constraints that she has.

so “chickpea stew” merits eternal cancelation but mangling pho does not? very very odd take.

Anonymous wrote:Have no idea who this person is, but cultural appropriation and micro aggression are just other ways of saying “I’m bored and inexplicably feel the need to pretend to be victimized by someone”.

This isn’t even first world problems, this is made-up problems.

+1

Anonymous wrote:Tieghan runs up a mountainside every morning at 7am and works tirelessly until 11pm EARLIEST. As a very self disciplined woman, I can say her discipline and diligence leave me in the dust. The Gerards aren’t nepo babies— they’re from Ohio and both Red and Tieghan are not only gifted (and built their wealth through their gifts) but disarmingly kind and humble. She has navigated her young adulthood while building an empire because her default is to work. And work. And work. Shame on the speculation backed by zero first hand account or personal interaction with Tieghan and her family. Our mountain community adores her and I’m shocked by how many people know so little about her yet attacked so ferociously. Would love to see a NYT article on my life and my missteps (innocent but plentiful) and then have the masses weigh in…if Tieghan receives this treatment I would be eviscerated! #yikes

You admire this work ethic but those of us who have endured the misery of an eating disorder see this and know that she is suffering. Glad you admire her, but I hope she gets the help she needs. I suffered for 3 decades before I got well and I hate to see anyone suffering when I know freedom from an eating disorder is possible.

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Anonymous wrote:I love her.

But just as much has changed. Ms. Gerard, who is white, has long been called out for mispronouncing dishes from other cultures and misidentifying her creations, like calling tacos with pineapple “Hawaiian” and noodles with honey and peanut butter “Chinese.”

Omg. Go enjoy some chop suey and crab Rangoon.

For real. So she called something with pineapple in it Hawaiian and now she is racist? Who cares

Hawaiians?

You haven't explained how it's racist.

Pineapple is a Hawaiian theme, no? Besides if you really wanted to be all woke and sensitive, you'd spell Hawaii with the apostrophe.

Anonymous wrote:Tieghan runs up a mountainside every morning at 7am and works tirelessly until 11pm EARLIEST. As a very self disciplined woman, I can say her discipline and diligence leave me in the dust. The Gerards aren’t nepo babies— they’re from Ohio and both Red and Tieghan are not only gifted (and built their wealth through their gifts) but disarmingly kind and humble. She has navigated her young adulthood while building an empire because her default is to work. And work. And work. Shame on the speculation backed by zero first hand account or personal interaction with Tieghan and her family. Our mountain community adores her and I’m shocked by how many people know so little about her yet attacked so ferociously. Would love to see a NYT article on my life and my missteps (innocent but plentiful) and then have the masses weigh in…if Tieghan receives this treatment I would be eviscerated! #yikes

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