Who Is Alison Roman? 5 Things to Know About the Cookbook Author Feuding With Chrissy Teigen

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Who Is Alison Roman? 5 Things to Know About the Cookbook Author Feuding With Chrissy Teigen

Feuding foodies. Alison Roman recently made headlines for her beef with Chrissy Teigen, but the 34-year-old chef has gone viral over the years for more than just her controversial comments. Roman, who gained a following through the hashtags #TheCookies, #TheStew and #ThePasta, criticized Teigen’s journey from model to cookbook author during a recent interview. “What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me. She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her,” Roman told The New Consumer on Thursday, May 7. “That horrifies me and it’s not something that I ever want to do. I don’t aspire to that.” Teigen, who has two best-selling cookbooks, called Roman’s remarks a “huge bummer” that hit her “hard.” “I don’t think I’ve ever been so bummed out by the words of a fellow food-lover. I just had no idea I was perceived that way, by her especially,” the Lip Sync Battle host tweeted on Friday, May 8. “There are many days I cry very hard because cravings, the site, is our baby we love to pump content onto. we do this work ourselves, and there is NO monetary gain yet. it is just work work work and the reward is you liking it. so to be called a sellout… hooooo it hurts.” [jwplayer yXItpomq] While Roman apologized, the drama prompted Teigen to take a break from Twitter. “Hi @chrissyteigen ! I sent an email but also wanted to say here that I’m genuinely sorry I caused you pain with what I said. I shouldn’t have used you /your business (or Marie [Kondo]s!) as an example to show what I wanted for my own career - it was flippant, careless and I’m so sorry,” Roman tweeted on Friday. “Being a woman who takes down other women is absolutely not my thing and don’t think it’s yours, either (I obviously failed to effectively communicate that). I hope we can meet one day, I think we’d probably get along.” Scroll through for five things to know about Roman, including her celebrity fans:

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Who Is Alison Roman? 5 Things to Know About the Cookbook Author Feuding With Chrissy Teigen

Feuding foodies. Alison Roman recently made headlines for her beef with Chrissy Teigen, but the 34-year-old chef has gone viral over the years for more than just her controversial comments. Roman, who gained a following through the hashtags #TheCookies, #TheStew and #ThePasta, criticized Teigen’s journey from model to cookbook author during a recent interview. “What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me. She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her,” Roman told The New Consumer on Thursday, May 7. “That horrifies me and it’s not something that I ever want to do. I don’t aspire to that.” Teigen, who has two best-selling cookbooks, called Roman’s remarks a “huge bummer” that hit her “hard.” “I don’t think I’ve ever been so bummed out by the words of a fellow food-lover. I just had no idea I was perceived that way, by her especially,” the Lip Sync Battle host tweeted on Friday, May 8. “There are many days I cry very hard because cravings, the site, is our baby we love to pump content onto. we do this work ourselves, and there is NO monetary gain yet. it is just work work work and the reward is you liking it. so to be called a sellout… hooooo it hurts.” [jwplayer yXItpomq] While Roman apologized, the drama prompted Teigen to take a break from Twitter. “Hi @chrissyteigen ! I sent an email but also wanted to say here that I’m genuinely sorry I caused you pain with what I said. I shouldn’t have used you /your business (or Marie [Kondo]s!) as an example to show what I wanted for my own career - it was flippant, careless and I’m so sorry,” Roman tweeted on Friday. “Being a woman who takes down other women is absolutely not my thing and don’t think it’s yours, either (I obviously failed to effectively communicate that). I hope we can meet one day, I think we’d probably get along.” Scroll through for five things to know about Roman, including her celebrity fans:

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1. She’s a Self-Taught Chef

“I didn’t go to culinary school,” Roman revealed in April 2020 interview with Fast Company, noting her first job in the food business was at Sona restaurant in Los Angeles. “I just walked in and asked for a job. It was a small kitchen, and I’d ask them, ‘What are you using? How are you cooking that lamb?'”

Roman has since worked as a pastry chef in Los Angeles and New York City.

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2. She’s a New York Times Best Seller

Roman has two cookbooks: 2017’s Dining In and 2019’s Nothing Fancy. Her second book charted on the New York Times best sellers list. Roman also writes a bi-weekly column for the newspaper.

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3. She Has a Dedicated Fanbase

Hours before her feud with Teigen exploded, Roman shared a story via social media about her popularity within the LGBTQ community.

“My instinct isn’t to think, oh great, the lesbians love me, it’s – did I f—k up?” she explained to Autostraddle. “It’s definitely the most fun hashtag [#Dykes4Roman] that’s ever been created in my honor to date, hands down.”

She added: “I’ve never dated a woman, no, but last summer, every time I went out, I would get hit on by women. Every time!”

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4. She Has Celebrity Fans

Roman, who has 565,000 Instagram followers, has several famous fans. Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Kacey Musgraves and Mindy Kaling are among the stars who keep up with her via the social media platform.

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5. She’s Supposed to Work With Chrissy

Teigen revealed via Twitter that she signed on to produce Roman’s upcoming TV show, which has been postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“I have made her recipes for years now, bought the cookbooks, supported her on social and praised her in interviews. I even signed on to executive produce the very show she talks about doing in this article,” Teigen tweeted.