Omnivore - My nothing-but-fruit diet

Last year Frank Bruni, the New York Times restaurant critic, wrote an article for Men’s Vogue detailing the measures he takes to stay healthy while consuming vast quantities of restaurant food. I can only sympathize and admire his willpower. The man spends half his life eating and the other half exercising.

I have struggled with the problem ever since I started at CL – how to stay healthy while eating for a living. I’ve heard other critics weigh in, saying the secret is to just taste the food rather than eat entire meals. Yeah, right. I do this job because I love food, and I’m not about to let a perfectly good plate of dinner go unfinished just because that’s the healthy thing to do. Besides, I feel as though eating a meal as it was intended is part of the experience – sometimes the first bite of a dish can seem gloriously flavorful, but by the time you get to the fifth bite, you realize that the food is simply too rich to sustain through an entire entree. Likewise, I’ve had a lot of first spoonfuls of soups that seem lovely but become bland and boring by the bottom of the bowl.