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Lauren Graham partnered with Bob’s Red Mill to share a gluten-free banana coffee cake muffin recipe.The actress, who has celiac disease, says gluten-free baking doesn’t have to mean disappointing texture.In an interview with Delish, Graham also reflected on the close-knit Gilmore Girls cast and shared one particularly relatable on-set snacking habit.
Lauren Graham, she’s just like us! The actress and author, best known for her iconic roles in Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, doesn’t have too much in common with Lorelai Gilmore’s questionable eating habits, but there is one trait they share.
“I guess just stand[ing] with the refrigerator door open eating out of the refrigerator like a heathen,” she says of their shared food habits. Honestly, same.
While you wouldn’t raise an eyebrow at Lorelai eating straight out of the ice cream tub or snagging a Pop-Tart for breakfast, Graham’s latest food project is a little more polished. She recently partnered with Bob’s Red Mill for the second year of the company’s Moregetherness campaign, which encourages people to connect over food.
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For the campaign, Graham shared her recipe for Gluten-Free Banana Coffee Cake Muffins, made with Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour. As someone with celiac disease, Graham says it’s important for people to know that gluten-free doesn’t have to mean underwhelming baked goods.
“Sometimes gluten-free flours can have sort of a texture that isn’t great. And I find this texture really nice,” she says of the brand’s flour. “There’s something wonderfully old-fashioned about bringing something homemade to someone’s door—it’s personal without being complicated. [And] showing up with food says, ‘I was thinking of you.’”
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That emphasis on showing up for people also has an obvious connection to Gilmore Girls and its famously tight-knit Stars Hollow community.
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“I’ve been lucky enough to be associated with a fictional world where people really show up for one another. Moregetherness takes that feeling people love and makes it possible in real life,” Graham says.
Graham will also be revisiting that world of Stars Hollow in the upcoming Gilmore Girls documentary, but the sense of community wasn’t limited to what viewers saw onscreen. It ran through the cast, too.
When reminiscing about her time on set, Graham shared one late-night snack she particularly associates with co-star Kelly Bishop.
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“Kelly Bishop was a dancer and very, very disciplined. I never saw her eat anything kind of excessive, and she would come up to me at two in the morning and be like, ‘Do you want to split a bag of Cheetos?’” Graham recalls. “We’d go to craft services and get one of those little tiny bags, and she would delicately eat them, so I always think of her with Cheetos.”
And don’t worry, I asked: They opted for the crunchy version, not the puffs. Next time, don’t forget to invite me, guys!
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