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diet

  • Food That Makes You Happy, Food That Makes You Healthy, Food That Makes You Hot

    Food That Makes You Happy, Food That Makes You Healthy, Food That Makes You Hot

    The original plan was for me to take my shirt off. I know, you’re all drooling on to your keyboards at the thought, but settle down! I needed a goal, something to motivate me to get into shape. This was in February. I rejoined my old L.A. gym, Crunch, which makes absolutely no sense because…

  • How I Keep Going To The Gym

    How I Keep Going To The Gym

    There was a tiny period, at the end of 2011 and the start of 2012, when, upon joining a gym for the 300th time, I blogged about this latest attempt at exercise on my Not Food Blog. I wrote about the advantages of a treadmill vs. an elliptical machine (the treadmill forces you to run),…

  • How Do You Not Weigh 500 Pounds?

    How Do You Not Weigh 500 Pounds?

    If there’s one question I get asked all the time, whether in my blog comments or over Twitter, it’s: “How do you not weigh 500 pounds?” It’s usually in response to a post about a very decadent meal or a recipe that involves several sticks of butter (like Craig’s birthday cake). The question implies that…

  • How Did I Lose 15 Pounds Writing a Cookbook?

    How Did I Lose 15 Pounds Writing a Cookbook?

    Last week I thought I was dying. No really: it was Craig’s birthday and I took him out to Soto where we ordered the tasting menu (this is after taking him to a taping of The Daily Show.) The food started to come–a tiny amuse bouche, then a bowl of miso soup–and after the soup,…

  • Frank Bruni’s “Born Round”

    Frank Bruni’s “Born Round”

    Iconic male food writers like A.J. Liebling and R.W. Apple were large men; they flaunted their girth in ways that their female counterparts (M.F.K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, Ruth Reichl) did not. Their weight helped them cultivate an aura of power and authority; it’s easy to imagine them sitting in a brown leather chair, patting their…