A super food in fine form - eggs benedict!
A quick peek at Yahoo today turned up this gem: 6 essential flat-belly-foods. I did have a large, unhealthy lunch, which made me wonder if seeing this was really just a coincidence.
My initial concern over the short list turned to joy when I realized I actually like 5 of the 6 items (I didn’t know what “kefir” was and initially thought it might relate to Thai food.) Sigh, it did not. Items on the list include:
• quinoa
• green tea
• kefir
• avocado
• eggs
• grapefruit
This list led to a search on men’s super foods, women’s top 125 packaged foods and the topic of “bliss point” which is apparently what restaurants and food manufacturers use to get us to eat more of whatever they are selling (apparently it worked on me today during lunch!)
A few more searches turned up various lists of super foods and another search for “allium” which was on Oprah’s list (scallions, onions and garlic). That seems like a good term to drop into any food crowd to see how many furrow their brows in confusion. It also gives me another excuse to eat more garlic despite the objections of those standing beside me in any small space.
With numerous super food lists available online simply determining WHAT to eat can be daunting these days. If anything, it seems like these lists are a good way to discover new things and try them out. Who knows, maybe someone will find a new food combination AND end up with a flat belly along the way. Now that would be super amazing (and probably a best seller!)
What things make YOU a foodie? I started a list but would love to hear your thoughts!
1. You plan your next meal during your current meal
2. A dinner party becomes an excuse to cook and have leftovers the next day
3. It’s no longer “just pizza” but rather something exotic with ingredients like broccoli rabe and speck
4. You know what speck IS (hint: it’s not the dirt on your kitchen floor)
5. After a wedding your best friend tells you that “someone used the disposable cameras on the tables to take pictures of food!” (and not the guests – oops)
6. Upon returning from vacation you remark “there weren’t enough meals in a day to try all the good food”
7. You obsess about a recipe as you are going to sleep (instead of counting sheep you are counting eggs or onions)
8. A routine trip to the grocery store ends up with a tour of all the aisles and you emerge an hour later with just a carton of milk
9. Fill-in-the-blank (add your own thought here)
A healthy dessert for the food obsessed!
I can’t remember the first time someone called me a foodie. All I know is that the word centered around one of my favorite things – food. “Finally” I thought , “I have an identity!”
What exactly IS a foodie? Well, according to one recently viewed report, it’s a person who loves food and the surrounding culture. Foodies differ from Gourmets in that they tend to have a wider range of food-related interests. They might be as interested in eating it (finding the trendiest places on the planet to have, say, udon noodles) or making it. And as it turns out there are more and more of us now, 31 million or about 14% of the US adult population.
While at a recent cooking event I mused to the organizer it sometimes feels as though collectively we’ve all become foodies overnight. My friend laughed and said “it’s really here, in San Francisco. The rest of the country is still catching up”. I mulled over this possibility as I thought about all the recent conversations, questions and websites visited all centered around the topic of, you guessed it: FOOD (they weren’t all here in California).
Of course it’s quite possible that foodies tend to glom onto each other and obsess over the latest produce or method of frying fries. Perhaps it’s just my circle of friends and the amount of great food we have within greasy-fingered, pizza tossing, deep frying reach.
I’ve now convinced myself that all this talk about food has made me hungry so I’m off to the kitchen. Perhaps I’ll find some gourmet chocolate in my cupboard!
