Elizabeth Banks.Photo:Jason Koerner/Getty
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Elizabeth Banksis sharing her love of food with her “manny.”
“I started saving food inspo on [Instagram], and now all I get is food inspo. And to be honest, I’m cooking tons of stuff off Instagram recipes,” Banks says.
The actress, who shares sons Felix, 11, and Magnus, 10, with husbandMax Handelman, also revealed that she recently hired a “manny” (a.k.a male nanny) and has been passing along her favorite recipes to him.
“He’s never really cooked anything,” she says. “And I’ve been sending him this Instagram account that’s, like, a five-ingredient meal from Trader Joe’s.”
“Just make it easy, go buy these five things and put them together,” she explains.
The actress went on to share that she loves food and is “actually a really good cook,” before showing PEOPLE some of her favorite recipe accounts, including one social media page that made one of her new favorite gnocchi dishes.
Meanwhile, when it comes to what was important for Banks with Archer Roose — which offers wines sourced from around the world in single-serve cans — she says that one aspect was making wine more accessible for lovers of the beverage.
“How do we move away from a 150-year practice of selling wine in America as like a snooty endeavor where you better know what you’re talking about, to ‘I just like what I like, I just like what tastes good to me and I don’t want to be shamed when I buy it’ " she explains.
“So, this felt to me like a really great way to make quality accessible to people who don’t want to be sold snooty wine,” she says, adding that the wine industry is “old school” and has very few women in it.
“I was floating down a river in an inner tube with a can in the water staying cold, and I was like — this is the greatest day of my life,” Banks says of first trying Archer Roose wine.
In one shot, she posed with her leg up outside her home while wearing fuzzy slippers on her feet and even attempted a high jump in the air.
Several of her celebrity friends wished her a happy golden birthday, including actressJulianne Moore, who wrote, “Happy birthday Queen!!! You are a golden ⭐️.”Katie Couriccommented, “Happy birthday hot stuff 🔥❤️.”
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Banks previously opened up about her newfound focus onkeeping her body healthyin an interview with PEOPLE last year.
“You can get away with so much when you’re young — now I just realize that I can’t,” she said at the time. “My skin is a reflection of what’s going on with me holistically. So I’ve really tried to make my beauty routine more holistic. That means a little less drinking, a lot more sleep and a lot more hydration.”
source: people.com
