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Fourth the request for doner kebabs! So delicious and so easy to eat quick.

Kitchen work is hard on your body, the hours are terribly long and the money is not great unless you are in the very top tier—you'd have to be nuts or at the very least very naive to start a kitchen career thinking you'll get rich. Having said that, I'm going to point my fingers at two Food Network stars who've never worked in kitchens: Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray. Celebrities, yes; chefs, no. Their shows make me sad for the tastebuds and health of the people that watch them.

What Husband said! I would cook ten times more if there was a machine to clean up after me.

I was addressing this calorie-centric view of nutrition

Read my post again, please; that's actually Krispy Kreme's view, not mine. My comment about the 20 calories savings was not pulled out of thin air—it's clearly in response to their touting the lesser calories as A Big Deal.

And let's be honest, Krispy Kreme is doing this in response to their losing money because of low carb diets, hoping that people who don't know much about nutrition (most people) will think the whole wheat doughnut is going to be a treat they can swap in that's going to help make things better, and that's wrong. The huge emphasis being placed on low carb, low fat, whole wheat, skim milk, etc is messed up in a diet-crazy, eating-disordered country where people will gladly eat all those things but in hugely oversized portions, when the truth is we'd most of us do just fine eating traditional food in moderations.

people may actually prefer the taste of whole wheat

See, now that's crazy talk right there! But seriously, you totally missed my point: doughnuts are perfectly fine the way they are, it's our eating habits that are messed up.

Or they may prefer having 4 marginally less delicious whole wheat doughnuts a month to their normal 3 traditional doughnuts.

If you want an example of illogical thought, that's a classic example right there, from the US "more is better" school. There's no good reason someone with a healthy attitude towards eating would or should prefer to have four less tasty, only slightly healthier doughnuts to three tastier doughnuts in one day, let alone over a month. Imagine asking your average Parisian to choose between eating three proper butter croissants and four whole wheat croissants!

I like it a lot too! You, me and Adam should go to McDonald's together sometime.

Over at Required Eating: Man gets English Breakfast tattooed on his skull. Eeep!

rion, considering the wonders of chemical engineering these days, I bet these things have no pork product. You should try them!

(And let me know what they're like!)

Oh wow, that looks INSANE. I will be checking my local delis to see if any of them manage to import that for Easter!

Josie, it's the book by our big kahuna, Ed Levine! The first version of New York Eats was published in 1992, and then he put out a big update (200 new entries!) in 1997.

Oooh, I haven't been to the Black Pearl since they moved out of the East Village. That sounds goooood.

I've never been to New Orleans but from everything I've heard I'd be very happy visiting there even if all I did was stuff my face. I have been to Tokyo a few times and as interesting and amazing as it is, I would still be really happy if on a return trip all I did was eat eat eat! NYC is a great food city and I'm glad to live here.

Alaina and I bought Ajinomoto's pork, chicken and vegetable frozen gyoza after trying it cooked in Mitsuwa, it's fairly tasty and I polished off the bag but I'm not really into having chicken in my gyoza. The brand I like the most is Day-Lee's pork and vegetable gyoza, you can find them in JAS-Mart in New York and other Japanese groceries in the US; their cooking instructions worked best with both their gyoza and Ajinomoto's, for what it's worth. Maybe we should do a frozen gyoza taste test!

This was lots of fun to read. Good job, Sarah!