Avoid 'fatphobia' by putting potato chips in your recipes, cookbook author advises in Washington Post

The Washington Post published a piece that oddly suggested readers should put potato chips in their food to avoid being "being fat-phobic."

"In their familiar guise, cookbooks have a powerful way of normalizing cultural messages. As someone who has worked on cookbooks for well over a decade, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of how ‘healthy’ cookbooks normalize cultural messages about disordered eating and fatphobia," Turshen wrote. "Cookbooks can affirm things without ever needing to be direct. Many don’t overtly say 'you should restrict this so you don’t get fat,' but they suggest it by talking about ways to, for example, substitute zucchini for pasta," Turshen added. "I don’t know who needs to hear this, but zucchini will never be pasta."