Entries tagged with 'Ed Levine'
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The Year That Was, as measured by Ed's waistline. Ed started his diet on January 10. He flirted briefly with 100-calorie snack packs, was rebuked for it, and then renounced them. Still questionable: Ed's ideal diet breakfast—Diet Coke, potato chips, and a banana. Then again, he did discover his inner bok choy, which makes a weird kind of sense, I suppose. And for a series of posts that you'd think would have been fairly innocuous, it managed to incite mild controversy when The-Feedbag's Josh Ozersky attacks Ed and then posts a retraction. My main beef with Ed's diet posts is that they have inspired my girlfriend to get on my case about starting my own serious diet. But let's focus...
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... Twinkies now sold in 100-calorie snack-pack size. Related: The 100 Calorie Solution—The Answer to Our Prayers?...
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"Many towns in the South have an active hot dog culture." —Ed Levine, referring to Martha's hot dog list. (Incidentally, I love this response to Ed's quote.)...
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The refrigerator at Serious Eats headquarters is infamous for containing foodstuffs long forgotten or those with unknown origins. But even I was surprised to open the freezer this morning and see soda popsicles—encased in large shards of glass. Looks like someone forgot to take their chilled bottles of Fizzy Lizzy out of the freezer. So in case you didn't know, soda bottles should not be left in the freezer. Otherwise they will explode in a grisly death and line your freezer shelves with icy soda guts....
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Creepy! We were just perusing Eater and saw that one of that blog's readers snapped a sneaky shot of our own Ed Levine "seriously considering eating at Sky Asian Bistro in the JetBlue terminal." That must have been late last week, when Ed was on his way out to the West Coast to do some eating. The anonymous Eater tipster notes that Ed passed on Sky Asian. If you stay tuned to Serious Eats, later in the day we'll have the first of Ed's reports from his trip....
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In the latest installment of his FN Dish video series, Adam "Amateur Gourmet" Roberts interviews food bloggers Luisa Weiss (The Wednesday Chef), Amanda Kludt (Eater), and our own Ed Levine (Serious Eats overlord) to find out what motivates their eating and bleating. If you have no interest in starting your own food blog (much madness lies that way, believe me), fast-forward to 2:04 to skip the tutorial....
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I have to say that dieting in public, digital fashion has been kind of motivating. The community of Serious Eaters has been so supportive and so helpful I feel like I've been thrown into some kind of Weight Watchers–like situation, which is most definitely a good thing. I regard my Thursday-morning weigh-in with the same mixture of dread and excitement that used to pervade my actual Weight Watchers experiences when I actually went to that company's meetings many years ago. But the digital weigh-in does function as an online Serious Dieters meeting. In fact if anyone wants to join me, I would really appreciate other folks weighing in on Thursday morning and reporting the results by commenting on these weekly...
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Week 2 was filled with many diet challenges unique to people who eat and then write about what they ate for a living. Sometimes I think there's nothing more pathetic than a food writer and lover—a serious eater—on a diet. Then I conclude that it's not pathetic, just hard and worthwhile. I was in Minneapolis for two days this week on business (thanks, everyone, for all the excellent dinner and breakfast suggestions). Whenever I'm traveling on business I feel compelled to explore the food culture of that city with local food writers and restaurant critics leading the way. Actually, it's much more than a compulsion. It's a source of great pleasure. I don't like to waste meals on mere fueling...
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I regard Week 1 of my diet as a success, but it wasn't easy. It's obvious that I need every bit of the encouragement and assistance all of you have been offering me. I'll be checking in with all of you every Thursday to give you a diet update. As Serious Eats I find myself confronted by temptation at every turn. Yesterday, for example, the Serious Eats crew decided to have a mess of Korean fried chicken delivered. You think it's easy eating brown rice and a little lean roast pork while they're snarfing down regular and extra-spicy fried chicken, mac and cheese, and waffle fries? Temptation yesterday also took the form of some BonBonBars, chocolate bars made from serious...
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So Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine is on a diet. Which kinda blows for the rest of us here in the office because it means the days of "Oh, I just stopped at the bakery on the way in and picked up one of everything they had" are over. That's why I'm supporting Kevin Weeks (right, proprietor of Seriously Good) in his (good-natured, I think?) blog war against Ed: So over the next 12 months I will tempt Mister Ed Levine with sandwiches. Sandwiches he, the fancy New Yorker, can’t possibly duplicate or, if he does, will be bad for his health. I, too, am risking my health in this culinary Russian Roulette, but I'm confident that I will prevail...
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