Controversial Australian identity Pete Evans has teamed up with U.S. Health Secretary-elect Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to produce a new cookbook for children.
Evans was previously a celebrity chef on Australian television, but pivoted to a platform of promoting controversial and debunked conspiracy theories during the COVID pandemic.
Kennedy Jr is also well known for his anti-vax views.
The duo met back in 2020, when Kennedy Jr invited Evans to film an interview at his home in Los Angeles.
This was the same year that Evans was sacked from his co-host role of Sevens’ My Kitchen Rules, and was fined $25,000 by the Therapeutic Goods Administration for promoting a device he claimed could cure COVID-19.
The new book, titled Healthy Food for Healthy Kids, features 120 paleo- and keto-friendly meals for children.
It will be published by Kennedy Jr’s Children’s Health Defence, one of the largest US anti-vaccine groups, and released in January of next year.
The group had their social media accounts removed from both Facebook and Instagram in 2022 for spreading medical misinformation.
In 2015, another children’s paleo cookbook co-authored by Evans was cut by publisher Pan Macmillan after dietitians and doctors heavily criticised its content.