PrintEverything Ed Levine Ate This Week
Grub Street has posted this week's "New York Diet" column, and the featured eater is Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine. If you have ever wanted to hear about every single piece of food Ed ate in a single week, here is your chance.
Regular Serious Eats New York readers (or followers of Ed's diet posts) will find much of what Ed listed as very familiar—like his trip to the newly opened Salumeria Rosi, a great meal at West Branch, pizza bianca from Grandaisy, the sidewalk from Song Kran, and Sal & Carmine's followed by Zabar's frozen yogurt.
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I'm curious if Ed has ever added up the calories in a given day. From the Grub Street post, it sounds like he is rarely under 1,500 calories and frequently goes up to 2,000 calories or more. And that is if we believe it is a true accounting of everything that gets eaten or tasted. I'm not questioning his integrity, but it is quite difficult to remember to log everything consumed in a day.
Two slices of pizza, a bowl of black bean soup and raisins is hardly a light meal. Rough estimates for the calories are 140 per slice of pizza, 120 for the black bean soup, and 80 for the raisins: 480 calories total. (http://www.nutrientfacts.com) For that number of calories, he could have had a 1/2 pound piece of steak and collard greens.
greenfield at 11:29AM on 11/14/08
I really miss having Sal & Carmine's as my local slice joint. Looks like a trip to the UWS is in order.
homesicktexan at 12:15PM on 11/14/08
dude, who cares? he eats the way he wants to eat, and he's even managing to lose weight. it's easy to judge, but if you had his job can you imagine you'd be able to eat "light" all the time? i'm kind of the same way, i have a big appetite, i balance it out by exercising a lot. ed exercises as well, so you're not taking calories burned into account. sorry, but your comment just kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
sarahlucy at 12:15PM on 11/14/08
@sarahlucy: You ask, "who cares?" I care because it's an interesting topic about food, and I would suspect that's why he writes about dieting as well. I too have gone on diets in the past, and there are foods that I sacrificed and foods I chose to continue to eat.
I apologize if you took offense at the use of my word, "light," but I was a bit surprised by his description of his dinner while he was on a diet. It is arguably a non-traditional dinner regardless if he were on a diet or not.
With respect to calorie counting, in his first post on the diet topic, Ed wrote, "I'm trying to limit my caloric intake to 2,000 calories a day," so I think it is fair to ask how he is counting calories.
That being said, I think you missed one of the points I was trying to make. Instead of two slices of old pizza, reheated black bean soup and raisins, Ed could have eaten a fairly nice steak dinner that would have supplied the same energy (from the caloric perspective), made him feel just as full (if not more full), may have been as nutritious, and would have tasted better. (Unless he was really in the mood for cold pizza.) I'm actually more curious about why he chooses to eat the foods he eats rather than what he chooses to eat.
I'm not sure I understand why you took my comment so personally. Becoming more healthy is difficult for anyone, and it's unfortunate that there is such a focus on using weight as a sole metric for healthiness. While other metrics include body mass index, body fat percentage, I would love to read more about how Ed feels. Do his clothes fit better? Does he feel he has more energy? Is he happier?
I get the feeling that he is not happy with his diet. The post from Week 36 (actually Week 37) was poignant, and he has written about surreptitious snacking and taking breaks from the diet more than once. Ultimately, does he feel his diet is successful?
greenfield at 6:35PM on 11/14/08
i have to say, i agree with greenfield. like sarahlucy, i don't care what ed eats. he can eat whatever he wants and he does a damn good job of bringing us all great food porn and reviews. BUT, he is writing about a diet and staying under a certain amount of calories a day. greenfield, a slice of pizza most definitely has more than 140 calories a slice. it's more like at least anywhere from 250 - 600. the ones at sal and carmine's definitely have calories in the 4 - 500 per slice range. and dried fruit is notorious for packing in tons of calories in small amounts.
it is true that it is difficult to keep track of EVERYTHING that you eat. condiments add a lot, little bites of things, etc. i tried doing that for one week once, just for kicks (not much of a dieter here!), and it was very, very surprising.
anyway, whatever. i went to momofuku milk bar today and thoroughly enjoyed it. and i bumped into se:ny's kathy chan while there. it is definitely a must-go place. GO, GO! fill up on 2,000 calories (and probably more!) there! :)
musicjess at 7:27PM on 11/15/08