"holding a glass of cucumber water"

Food Indulge me. The New Yorker have covered the press launch for Gwyneth's recipe book. At her house. The Guardian's Hadley Freeman couldn't have written a much better parody:

"Mario Batali, in pink cargo shorts, was talking to Ruth Reichl. “She eats like a truck driver,” he said of Paltrow. He recalled being in Valencia, Spain, and “watching her eat an entire pan of paella as big as a manhole cover.”
Michael Stipe added, “Once, a duck she was cooking caught fire, and she threw it in the pool.”
Paltrow greeted people by the door, holding a glass of cucumber water. Her mother, Blythe Danner, arrived.
“Hi, Mommy,” Paltrow said.
Danner unfurled a white monogrammed cloth: “I brought you something. Daddy’s napkin.”
“Oh, boy,” Batali said. “The tears are gonna fly now, baby.”

As David Hepworth said on Twitter, "This evening at Gwynie's story is the best portrait of the power elite since Tom Wolfe wrote "radical chic" in 1970."