Although, foodies associate shallots, not onions, more closely with French culinary style. Even Shrek famously noted that ogres are like onions -- they have layers. But shallots also have layers.

The pals giggled while cooking two recipes: Barrymore's chicken recipe from her cookbook Rebel Homemaker topped with Diaz's famous "shallot gold." "She's going to show us how to make literally ...