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Ed Levine's Diet, Week 15: Re-Entry Is a Bitch

This week I learned something every astronaut has learned the hard way: Re-entry is a bitch, at least when it comes to breathing-living-eating-dieting. When I last left you, serious eaters, I was consuming quite a few pieces of some of the finest fried chicken in the land. It didn't get any easier after that in New Orleans. Dinner that night was at Cochon, Donald Link's tribute to all things porcine that should be renamed Porktopia. The man loves pork as much as I do. It wouldn't surprise me if the tap water I drank there was infused with pork. We ate fried boudin balls, grilled pork ribs with watermelon salad, cochon (roast pig) of course, and house-made salumi, including...

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11 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, April 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Tagged: Cochon, diets, Ed Levine's Serious Diet, health, Lüke, Louisiana, New Orleans, sandwiches

Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 14: Don't Bring a Scale to New Orleans

I think you can see where this diet post is heading. All you serious eaters were right. I should have never brought my scale on the road. Stepping on it Dallas was painful. But weighing myself in New Orleans, where I am now, was an exercise in self-flagellation. Plus, it put a real crimp in my normal New Orleans eating style, which is to map out each bite in the course of the day, six meals in all, eaten at three-hour intervals. So I limited myself to three meals a day in a city which truly offers a fantastic array of delicious things. As it turns out, you can still pack in plenty of good eating in three meals...

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14 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, April 17, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Tagged: Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Lüke, Louisiana, Mila, New Orleans, Parkway Bakery