I
Love
Food
I admit it; I have an unhealthy relationship with my food. I love selecting it, smelling it, touching it, chopping it, cooking it and the pinnacle moment, the tasting. I love dressing up my food with little asian spoons, assorted little shots and glasses. I love watching people eat my food and to hear their nummy noises. And when I hear guests release a MMMmmm or Ohhhhhmy; That is my moment.
I’ve been cooking since I was 13 years old. I started cooking in restaurants and for private dinner parties when I was 15; seriously, a fish to water story. And in the early 90’s I started my own personal chef business. I specialized in “you want it, I cook it!” And everybody wanted the diet du jour, Fit for life, Sugar busters, Atkins, private nutrition plans, Cooper clinic diet; kind of a Crazy Eddie thing to do, yes but, it paid the bills and I was good at it.
My business grew because my food is fresh. Not something not every caterer can say. My Chef E. side instinctively seeks out the best ingredients available. I have been watching and working with the food supply for over 30 years now and the food had changed, a lot. There is something out there called . “faux” food: A real food replacement that may or may not kill you in 30 years or so. I have “faux” foodar. I can spot fake food a mile away. Faux foods include; cheese in a can, gravies from powders, frozen pre-breaded chicken patties that cost less than $8 bucks for a box, agave nectar, soy, and green ketchup, just to name a few.
My business grew because my food is fresh. Not something not every caterer can say. My Chef E. side instinctively seeks out the best ingredients available. I have been watching and working with the food supply for over 30 years now and the food had changed, a lot. There is something out there called . “faux” food: A real food replacement that may or may not kill you in 30 years or so. I have “faux” foodar. I can spot fake food a mile away. Faux foods include; cheese in a can, gravies from powders, frozen pre-breaded chicken patties that cost less than $8 bucks for a box, agave nectar, soy, and green ketchup, just to name a few.
Loving the rich party food packed 30lbs on me in 2005, a very good year for catering. This on top of the extra 50 or 60 pounds I already had and boom I’m weighing in at 247. Yikes. So I hopped on the clue bus in 2006 starting working with a nutritionist, a trainer and eating my diet du jour. I lost 80 pounds over a 3 year period. Maybe not the fastest weight loss story, but logging my work tasting was not easy. While cooking a Passover for 6 hours one year, I took in 80grams of fat. It was easy and yummy, mmmm chopped liver.
But yet I digress, back to my passion for high quality ingredients, it is now a disease and it has a name. It’s called orthorexia.
| Katherine Hepburn said, “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” Orthorexia doesn’t sound like fun. It is about eating cleaner than it needs to be. "Orthorexia nervosa" is the informal name of an eating disorder – more precisely, an aberrant eating pattern – defined by an extreme obsession with healthy eating food... continue reading | |
This was emailed to me from from Calorie-count.com. I thought they existed to help you lose weight? My bad. Click on Calorie-count.com link for the complete article.
Side effects include looking really hot, feeling really great and having a lot of energy throughout the day. Please let me know when the pharmaceutical companies come out with a pill to cure me. Because God knows I really want those 80 pounds I’ve lost back. I guess the only upside to this horrible disease is the worse your condition , the better you look and feel.
