{"id":3064,"date":"2008-07-08T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T02:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2008-07-09T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T15:01:50","slug":"who-are-you-and-what-have-you-done-with-my-taste-buds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"Who are you, and what have you done with my taste buds?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh my. Do I actually now like<\/em> beets? I may have to seriously re-evaluate my dining options.<\/font><\/p>\n

This past Sunday, I discovered that Tom Colicchio<\/a>, the head judge on Top Chef<\/em> (to which I was ridiculously addicted this past season) owns a chain of take-out sandwich shops, including some in New York<\/a>. Including one just around the corner from where I work near Bryant Park<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

My first thought was, how can I have never seen this place? Turns out I have. It’s actually a handful of small kiosks inside the park; one serves soup and sandwiches, a couple others on the other side of park serve desserts. (They maybe blend in a little too well<\/a>.)<\/font><\/p>\n

So I decided to try it for lunch today. And, inspired in part by two recent New York Times<\/em> articles — the 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating<\/a> and Putting Meat Back in Its Place<\/a> — as well as my desire to lose weight and maybe ease a little of my back pain, I decided to go vegetarian.<\/font><\/p>\n

This actually didn’t leave me with a lot of options — I’m still fairly secure in my distaste for chickpeas and olives — so I went with the roast beet salad. (Not as uber-healthy or vegan as it might sound; it was topped with goat cheese and candied walnuts, and I also bought a cream soda on the side.) But it’s worth noting that I don’t like beets, never have. And yet it was a really good salad. I genuinely liked the beets. It was akin to the moment, maybe fifteen years ago, when I realized that, oh hey, I actually did like mushrooms. Not exactly an epiphany or anything — the clouds didn’t part — but it does open some more eating possibilities.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh my. Do I actually now like beets? I may have to seriously re-evaluate my dining options. This past Sunday, I discovered that Tom Colicchio, the head judge on Top Chef (to which I was ridiculously addicted this past season) owns a chain of take-out sandwich shops, including some in New York. Including one just … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}