Former celebrity chef Pete Evans to publish cookbook with RFK Jr
Former celebrity chef turned conspiracy theorist Pete Evans has teamed up with anti-vaxxer and Donald Trump’s pick for US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to produce a new cookbook for children.
In the book, titled Healthy Food for Healthy Kids, Evans has created 120 paleo- and keto-friendly meals for children that will be published by Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defence, one of the largest US anti-vaccine groups.
Pete Evans and Robert F. Kennedy Jr in Los Angeles in 2020.Credit: Instagram
“So pleased and thankful that Robert Kennedy Jr set this up for me with his Children’s Health Defence team,” Evans posted on Telegram, the Daily Mail reported, before the post was removed.
“Stay tuned for more.”
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The book, which is available for pre-order, will be released in January 2025. In 2015, another children’s paleo cookbook co-authored by Evans was dumped by publisher Pan Macmillan after dietitians and doctors widely criticised it. The book, Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way, recommended feeding infants a DIY baby formula made from bone broth.
Evans’ latest cookbook came after he met Kennedy in January 2020 just before the outbreak of COVID-19 when he was invited to Kennedy’s home in Los Angeles to film an interview with him. The two became known during the pandemic for regularly posting debunked conspiracy theories about COVID-19.
Pete Evans in a post he shared on social media on the day Donald Trump was re-elected as US president.Credit: Instagram
That was the same year that Evans was dumped from his $800,000 a year gig as co-host of Sevens’ My Kitchen Rules, and that he was fined $25,000 by the Therapeutic Goods Administration for selling a device called a “BioCharger”. The device, which critics mocked as a “glorified lava lamp”, claimed it could help with the “Wuhan coronavirus”. The TGA said this claim had no apparent foundation.
