Monday, July 30, 2007
Off To Calabria
I set out for Calabria tomorrow, and I will try to find the time to write. I was just looking for a restaurant name in my little notebooks from other trips. I couldn't find it, which means that I had better record everything on my website/blog – The Maven’s Diary -- before it gets lost in a notebook, or somewhere else. It is my resolution for this trip.
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
Cook At Seliano on TV, Diabetic Diet
I somehow knew that the mention of diabetes and diets would elicit email, but not as much as I got – an avalanche. Thanks to all of you with your encouragement and advice. Before I clarify some things about that, and answer some of the questions you posed, let me alert you to something exciting.
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
My Diet, I'm in Italy
As I said in passing in my last Maven’s Diary entry, I am on a very rigorous diet. Besides that I have to lose a huge amount of weight, I have been diagnosed with diabetes. Fortunately, my doctor says it is totally reversible if I lose that huge amount of weight. Vanity was never a big motivator for me. (My line used to be, I’ve been thin and it isn’t that interesting.) Health seems to be. I have been a very good boy. Eating to satisfy two diet regimens isn’t as hard as I thought it would be. To tell you the truth, I am rather enjoying it. I have been eating mainly fish and vegetables, but I must also eat carbohydrates at every meal, and even a small amount of carbs with mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks that include some protein. I am not much of a snacker or nosher, however. I got fat eating way too much food at meals. Too much of everything, not even one particular food, although you must all know by now that I am partial to pasta and ice cream.
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, July 15, 2007
Cleaning Up My Desk
I leave this Wednesday for Italy. I want to leave with a clean desk. But it is piled with chits of paper, business cards, menus, and whatnot, reminders of things I have been meaning to share with you.
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
This and That
THE JEWISH DELI, DYING BREED
I try not to regret things in my life, but I do very much regret that I won’t be in New York to participate, as I was asked to, in the Museum of the City of New York’s panel on “Jewish Cuisine and the Evolution of the Jewish Deli,” to be moderated by Matthew Goodman on July 31 at 6:30 p.m. (I will be in Calabria.) Unbeknownst to either of us, some years ago Matthew and I both decided to call ourselves Food Maven, me for my website, he for the Jewish Forward, for whom he wrote a food column. The coincidence got us together and made use friends, not to mention admirers of each other’s work.
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Monday, July 2, 2007
On Burgers and Restaurant Critics
New Yorkers seem to have gone mad for hamburgers lately, not that we weren’t always mad for hamburgers, not that all of America isn’t mad for hamburgers
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