If you were forever being told to keep your hand out of the cookie jar when you were younger, it might not just have been because your parents didn't want you to spoil your appetite by snacking. They may also have known that the cookie jars would one day go on to attract incredible prices online, and they didn't want you to damage them!
Cookie jars just aren't around as much as they used to be. If you have cookies in your home, you probably just eat them straight from the packaging. The idea of having a specific jar for them seems almost quaint. That means there's now a nostalgia market for them, where they're viewed as an old curiosity. You'll see the biggest bids on yours if it comes from the 1940s or 1950s - especially Uncle Mistletoe Marshall Fields cookie jars, which go for an average of $1,200 each. Jars in the shape of famous film or television characters are also frequently worth hundreds of dollars.
Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.
Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.
Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.