March 15, 2025
Meghan finds herself caught up in what we will term Pasta-Gate.
Meghan finds herself caught up in what we will term Pasta-Gate.
While the Duchess has shared step-by-step guides for her truffle popcorn and honey lemon layer cake with raspberry, she has notably withheld the details of a one-pot pasta dish she made...
Meghan finds herself caught up in what we will term Pasta-Gate.
While the Duchess has shared step-by-step guides for her truffle popcorn and honey lemon layer cake with raspberry, she has notably withheld the details of a one-pot pasta dish she made in the first episode alongside her longtime friend and makeup artist, Daniel Martin.
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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I
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am your host, Mark Francis. Meghan finds herself caught up
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in what we will term pasta gate. While the Duchess
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has shared a step by step guides for her truffle
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popcorn and honey lemon layer cake with raspberry, she has
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notably withheld the details of a one part past a
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dish she made in the first episode alongside her longtime
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friend and makeup artist Daniel Martin. The spaghetti, featuring lemon, kale, arugula, tomatoes, garlic, parmesan, basil,
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and chili flakes, was described by Daniel as so eff
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and good. Meghan explained, when I make this, I make
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this for my family, not that my children are eating
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heaps of noodles, but I'll make enough that I can
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put leftovers in their lunchbox. However, the absence of the
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pasta recipe from the official release sparked a speculation among
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royal watchers. Some fans noted similarities to a well known
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dish by Martha Stewart, who first shared a version of
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the one pan pasta concept years ago and recently updated
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in February twenty twenty five, with the description the original
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and best. Stewart's recipe, inspired by a food editor's experience
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in Italy, features onions and red pepper flakes, and has
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long been one of her most popular dishes. As the
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pasta cooks, the water reduces and starchiness from the pasta
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transforms the remaining water into a creamy sauce, site explains,
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emphasizing the importance of parmesan and fresh basil to complete
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the dish. Social media users quickly made the connection, with
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one writing but this one pan pasta dish with kale
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is a Martha Stewart concoction, and another adding that is
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Martha Stewart's recipe and it is delicious. Others pointed out
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that similar versions have circulated for over a decade, with
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one commentary remarking I literally made the one pot pasta
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she made off Pinterest in twenty twelve. British chef Anna
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Jones has also included a variation in her cookbook A
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Modern Way to Cook, calling it a complete revelation. Meghan
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has long expressed a passion for cooking, dating back to
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her now defunct lifestyle blog The Tig, where she frequently
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shared her culinary experiments. In one post, she detailed her
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first attempt at homemade pastor, admitting that it initially felt intimidating.
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It was time I wanted to make a homemade pasta,
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but it scared me seemed so complicated, she wrote. She
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ultimately succeeded in making spaghetti alla katara and capelletti, stuffed
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with duck, confee, braised kale, and squash, joking that she
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had prepared for failure. If it really just turned out
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like a bowl of wet flow with some sad duck,
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I could finish my wine and order a pizza, she quipped,
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before declaring the final dish magical. Whether Meghan's past recipe
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emission was intentional or simply an oversight, the comparisons to
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Stewart's well established dish have certainly added another layer of
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intrigue to With Love Meghan. Emily Hile in the Washington
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Post tells us back off Meghan Markle haters. Her one
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part past a technique is legit. Emily tells us, well,
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I tried it, and sorry to the legions of Megan haters,
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but it's pretty delicious. To test whether it worked, I
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watched and rewatched the segment in which Meghan prepares the
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dish several times. Then I went to the store and
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for the ingredients, because, unlike the Duchess, my personal assistant
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was taking the day off. As I prepared to cook,
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I wondered whether I should try to emulate Meghan's dreamy
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cooking in other ways. My Gaalley kitchen on a gray
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DC afternoon in no way resembled her sunny, airy backdrop,
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which is not her real home. Bowls of fresh from
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the farm produes and rustic loaves of bread surrounded her
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massive island. My fruit bowl display consisted of an onion
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and a few dubious limes. I certainly wasn't going to
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dress like Meghan, who's all white ensemble made me trigger
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happy for a tired pen, and the billowing sleeves of
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her creamy blouse screamed fire hazard more than chic. I
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decided not to adopt her odd knife skills. She used
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a blade that looked like a large pairing knife, and
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she disconcertingly stretched her index finger along its top in
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a way that made me WinCE. Well, perhaps I could
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enlist a bestie, as our host did to admiringly watch
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me cook and utter praises such as, you've always shown
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your love through food. Well, I minced garlic and sliced tomatoes.
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No luck. Nevertheless, I soldered on and otherwise followed Megan's steps,
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and sliced cherry tomatoes go into a pan, topped with
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a generous sprinkle of salt, a drizzle of olive oil,
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and the garlic, a handful of spaghetti. She says, it's
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an entire pack, but it looks like less than a
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four pounds of me so I use a little more
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than half a box, and the zest of a whole
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lemon are laid on top of that, and three and
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a half cups of boiling water poured over it. She
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brought it to a boil, covered it for about six minutes,
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then uncovered it, stirred in ribbons of kale, charred and arugula,
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then added parmesan cheese and chili flakes, and the sauce
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produced around the pasta. My only critique of the dish
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itself is that it's on screen execution suffers from excess,
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which isn't surprising given that the host is literal royalty.
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She calls for three types of greens, kale, chard, and arugulum.
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But you don't need full bunches of each palace intrigue
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to be right back. The reaction to Megan's cooking show
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has been so overwhelmingly negative. Here we are, over a
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week later, still trying to recap all of them. Comedian
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Christina Positski, better known as Christina Pan, who co hosts
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a popular podcast with her husband comedian Tom Sagura, has
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added her voice, posting to TikTok for her one million followers.
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She's an actress playing the part of a human being
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right now, and it's not working. I don't know what
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the f this show is, she declared. She pointed out
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what she saw as a fundamental form in Meghan's presentation.
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The problem from minute one is that she's trying to
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be perfect all the time, and it reads as phony,
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as inauthentic and not fun. Megan, you just need to
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be an actress. Just go act You're great in suits,
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but when it comes to being a household branded name,
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you better be that thing through and through, otherwise people
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know that you're being fake and inauthentic. She's like, I
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don't even like honey, but now I appreciate it because
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I see how hard it is to get and then
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she makes beeswax candles out of real beeswax. But she's like,
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I've never done this before. Yeah, you've never done any
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of this before. And I can tell. We can all
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tell on BuzzFeed Stephanie Social Rights. Imagine hating on Meghan
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Markel when she's just sipping rose and making Lady bud
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crudiites in the Montesesito sunshine. Oh yes, I believe we
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can do that, Stephanie shares. To this day, I still
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couldn't tell you exactly what Meghan's crime was to spark
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this barrage of pure hatred beyond being black. With Piers Morgan,
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it appears that he got offended when he wasn't invited
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to Meghan and Harry's wedding, having met the Dutches twice before,
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and he has publicly claimed that she ghosted him. Others
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believe that the Palace was concerned that Harry and Meghan's
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natural warmth and charisma as royals could put William and
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k to Shane, triggering the calculated smear campaign. Whatever the
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reason behind this campaign, it's under deniable that it worked.
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To this day, Meghan possesses the ability to leave otherwise
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regular seeming people frothing at the mouth with her near existence.
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In fact, Megan appears to induce an almost admirable level
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of wilful ignorance from her haters, who are seemingly so
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indoctrinated to find issues with everything she does that they
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lose all common sense. Predictably, the blind hatred has really
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ramped up a gear this week thanks to the release
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of Meghan's Netflix series With Love Meghan, an esthetically beautiful
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lifestyle show where Megan shears incredibly attainable tips and tricks
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for everything to do with hosting. After all, no matter
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how many hate tweets and nasty think pieces sent Meghan's
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way in the coming days, months, and years, one thing
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is abundantly clear. While the critics are getting irrationally angry
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over Meghan's new TV show, she is sipping rose and
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finding joy and making Lady Bud crudites out of mozzarella
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and olives in the California sunshine, surrounded by people who
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love her. In short, there is absolutely no question about it.
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Meghan Michael has already won, and there you have. But
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