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Not only do I want my salad to be coated with dressing light mirror, I want all the cheese, anchovies and any other crunchy nuggets with these bland leaves. After all, aren’t other ingredients that make a bowl of cereal or lettuce lively?Los Angeles food writer Helene Siegel has authored 40 cookbooks, including the "Totally Cookbook" series and "Pure Chocolate". She runs the Pastry Session blog. During COVID-19, she and 8-year-old Piper from Austin, Texas shared a Sunday morning baking class on Zoom.
Becoming a white woman of a certain age means that people will make assumptions. They think that I am still paying for the cable, it belongs to the slow lane, and when I have lunch with the ladies, I want my clothes to be set aside.
"The stereotype is too wrong!" I felt like screaming. Not only do I want my salad to be coated with dressing, I want all the cheese, anchovies and any other crunchy nuggets with these bland leaves. After all, aren’t other ingredients that make a bowl of cereal or lettuce lively? As you might have guessed, I never refuse bread and butter plates. Why do you want to leave hungry?
Like most women of a certain age and class, I have to develop a lifelong strategy around diet. I have to strike a balance between wanting to taste all the delicious food in the world and knowing when to stop to maintain a healthy body. When I look in the mirror, I can bear it.
Like most women of a certain age and class, I have to develop a lifelong strategy around diet. I have to strike a balance between wanting to taste all the delicious food in the world and knowing when to stop to maintain a healthy body. When I look in the mirror, I can bear it. Unlike most of my friends, I have a short history of dieting. After trying the chocolate biscuit diet around seven o'clock—you went on a hunger strike to protest and only ate biscuit—I once again flirted with the pain of hunger.
When I was about 15 years old, I was looking for bargains at Loehmann's in the Bronx, hoping to squeeze myself into the sample size, and I got a revelation. In the locker room, I had a sudden stomachache and dizzy. I had to stop throwing waste products on the floor and lay on it to rest. When I thought that I was hungry because I didn't eat a meal, the light bulb in my head lit up.
I realized that if I skip meals and concentrate on not eating, I may become thinner, wear all the best clothes, and may marry well—this is obviously a fairy tale from the 1950s. Thankfully, when my mother served her very rare roast beef with roast potatoes that weekend, my brief flirtation with anorexia was over. Forget the stereotype of Jewish mothers, my modern mothers did not force anyone to eat more or less than they wanted. The obsession with weight is not one of her troubles. She devoted herself to eating, cooking, baking and going to restaurants. In fact, if there is one place where she can't be frugal, it is food. Only the best flowed through her mouth.
It was not until my later years that I thought of eating too much. Because I am a skinny child and must be reminded to eat instead of stopping, I really don't need strategy before my first pregnancy. I have been putting half a gallon of full-fat chocolate milk nearby and have gained 60 pounds. After hiking in the mountains with a baby strapped to my chest and skipping meals for six months, the weight finally disappeared and replaced by the waistline I was still trying to find.
Later, I went back to my unscrupulous way. By middle age, I was paid as a cookbook/food writer to eat a few meals a day, until I finally quit my job at around 50 years old. Time for my excellent metabolism is running out.
In these days after COVID, when women or men of a certain age may gain some extra weight, I recommend relaxing the feeling of self-imposed deprivation. Now is not the time. Try to eat any food in moderation with good friends and family. Please dress up the salad!
Los Angeles food writer Helene Siegel has authored 40 cookbooks, including the "Totally Cookbook" series and "Pure Chocolate". She runs the Pastry Session blog. During COVID-19, she and 8-year-old Piper from Austin, Texas shared a Sunday morning baking class on Zoom.
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