Thomas Keller taught Adam Sandler.

Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger taught the cast of Tortilla Soup.

Michael White taught Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart.

Celebrity Chefs are adding yet another title to their vast array — cooking teachers to Hollywood stars. With more and more culinary-themed films being produced, this is a lucrative growth area for celebrity chefs.

If you are watching HBO’s miniseries, Mildred Pierce, you’re going to see Tom Colicchio student Kate Winslet as a restaurant owner.

How good was Tom’s teaching?

That seems to depend on what Kate is cooking.

Take a look at what she told David Letterman back in 2009. The big question then: “With an average two wounds per meal, does Kate Winslet belong in the kitchen?” Apparently, she really needed lessons, at least something along the lines of occupational safety and health.

Source: Super Chef

Kate Winslet has revealed that she struggled to portray the breakdown of a relationship in new TV mini-series Mildred Pierce, because the scenes reminded her of splitting from husband Sam Mendes.

The Titanic star announced the end of her seven-year marriage to the American Beauty director last year (10).

“It was tough. There were moments like that one where I was using things from my own life in my performance,” the Daily Express quoted Kate as saying.

“There were days when I’d almost feel comatose.”

But the actress found a delicious distraction during filming in the form of male model Louis Dowler, whom she dated for eight months.

In Mildred Pierce, a remake of the 1945 Joan Crawford film, Winslet plays an American in the Thirties who refuses to be a victim of the economic downturn and works hard to make something of herself.

“I connected with Mildred. I share her survival instinct. My parents didn’t have any money. I know what it’s like to work hard to get by and make something of yourself,” she said.

Source: DNA India