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After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by fuzztester »

fuzztester wrote: post #25
matwood wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. If we're talking about restaurants and not fast food, it's portion size that's typically the issue in the US. Oddly enough, the higher end restaurants start to move in the other direction and shrink portion sizes.

>I disagree. If we're talking about restaurants and not fast food, it's portion size that's typically the issue in the US. i think you are right. i have always seen big portion sizes in restaurants when i have gone to the US. also, very recently, i saw a youtube video in which a french person says the same thing. they said that even though the French eat a lot of fat, their overall portion sizes are smaller than thos…

I searched just now in my YouTube downloads and found the video I was referring to above:

https://youtu.be/9QyQmL-mlV0

The French Paradox: How rich food and wine could help you stay healthy | 60 Minutes Australia

I submitted it as an HN post here, in case anyone would like to discuss it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40980964

See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by decafninja »

polar8 wrote: post #19
UIUC_06 wrote: post #6

Great article. If you ask a real chef, "What do home chefs do wrong the most?" They will often say, "Not enough butter, not enough salt."

Eating in restaurants is terrible for your health. Here's a study that finds a 49% increase in all-cause mortality risk for those who frequently eat meals prepared away from home. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33775622/ I have stopped eating out completely as I always feel gross and tired after a restaurant meal vs energized after home-cooked food. I think it's mostly due to cheap oils in quantities you would never…

I lost a ton of weight during the initial Covid lockdowns of 2020 without even trying. The only difference?

I ate home cooked meals while WFH. They weren’t even made to be specifically healthy or with the objective of losing weight.

Then I jumped ship for a company that was 100% in office. I started eating the supposedly healthy meals catered by the company for lunch. Dinner also came later because commute time.

I gained back all the weight I lost WFH and then some. The significant amount of walking and/or biking from the commute did nothing to help.

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by fuzztester »

m463 wrote: post #26
fuzztester wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>salt, cheese, cream, butter, oil. there is a famous cooking book with a name close to that. ;)

add chocolate and get the perfect click ^H^H^H^H cookbait.

no, I meant an actual famous cookbook. I read about it on hn, actually.

it's called something like fat, acid, salt and heat. you can Google it.

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by ggm »

mythrwy wrote: post #30
shalmanese wrote: post #3

Right when FiveThirtyEight launched, they did a brilliant piece of content strategy in that one of their very first pieces was a quest to find the best burrito in America [1]. Anna Maria Barry-Jester self reportedly "traveled more than 20,000 miles around the United States and eaten 84 burritos in two rounds (to say nothing of the dozens of extracurricular burritos I polished off)." I was glued to the series as it pl…

Not sure I agree that this is a trivial question. Very few things in life are as important as burritos in my view.

Monads. Monads are as important as Burritos.

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by moate »

S_Bear wrote: post #24

That would be a rough ride for your health. I remember back when Adam Richman was doing the original run of Man vs Food and he was looking like death towards the end.

I mean, that wasn't a show about "food" or "restaurants" it was about gluttonous, over-the top food "challenges". Unless you were doing an equally extreme amount of work to counteract those meals, a season would absolutely destroy someone.

I see all the pearl clutching comments about how bad eating at restaurants is (former restaurant chef, I'm extremely biased and refused to be moved), but an over the top entree coming in at 1500 calories isn't even close to a 7 pound burrito IMO.

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by standardUser »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #31
UIUC_06 wrote: post #6

Great article. If you ask a real chef, "What do home chefs do wrong the most?" They will often say, "Not enough butter, not enough salt."

This is also why I don't like eating out much anymore. Every restaurant just leans so hard on heavily salting fats to make their food taste good. I'd rather cook myself now where I can actually taste flavors and feel good, rather than just having the primal "mmm good food" button bashed in my lizard brain and feeling like garbage afterwards.

It sounds like you are describing gorging yourself at Taco Bell. There must be better restaurants and eateries than that around you.

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by standardUser »

polar8 wrote: post #19
UIUC_06 wrote: post #6

Great article. If you ask a real chef, "What do home chefs do wrong the most?" They will often say, "Not enough butter, not enough salt."

Eating in restaurants is terrible for your health. Here's a study that finds a 49% increase in all-cause mortality risk for those who frequently eat meals prepared away from home. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33775622/ I have stopped eating out completely as I always feel gross and tired after a restaurant meal vs energized after home-cooked food. I think it's mostly due to cheap oils in quantities you would never…

Where are you people eating that you feel gross? And what are you ordering? I promise you, eating out does not and should not need to be anything like you are describing.

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by laweijfmvo »

This is the guy that trashed Guy Fieri's restaurant, right? Guy Fieri (and his restaurants') style might not be for everyone, but he's such a sweetheart and does so much for small businesses, not to mention firefighters etc., that you have to be pretty cold to do that. Still makes me mad.

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by otterley »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #58

This is the guy that trashed Guy Fieri's restaurant, right? Guy Fieri (and his restaurants') style might not be for everyone, but he's such a sweetheart and does so much for small businesses, not to mention firefighters etc., that you have to be pretty cold to do that. Still makes me mad.

It is possible both to be a saint and serve terrible food. A food critic isn’t supposed to give you a handicap for being a nice guy.

Re: After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

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Post by pbj1968 »

cm2012 wrote: post #16
paulpauper wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how would that work? the job is to eat the food

The author literally described how women food writers keep their health while writing food columns - they taste the dishes but don't eat the whole plate. He doesn't say this makes women worse food writers at all. He could just copy this strategy. If he doesn't have the will for it, semaglutides would make it really easy. You still enjoy and taste food the same on it, you just get full quicker. So there is an easy sol…

Semaglutide is not a drug taken casually. Speak from experience on this one. :-/
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