Posted on 04/25/2009 12:39:47 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The country's best-selling cookbook right now is for people who don't really cook, written by a hyperkinetic 43-year-old former TV producer named Lisa Lillien, who once upon a time hated the fact that she couldn't fit into her skinny jeans.
"I was that person who would sit at the computer and eat an entire bag of fat-free pretzels and think I was doing a good thing," Lillien says. "I wasn't." She lost 25 pounds eight years ago, and in 2003 she started sending her friends low-fat recipes and tips for finding healthful food in mainstream supermarkets.
She then very smartly turned herself into a cartoon character on the Internet called Hungry Girl. Now Lillien has almost 700,000 subscribers to her daily Hungry Girl e-mails, and she employs a staff of nine. As foodies seek eco-revelation in the local and organic, Hungry Girl speaks the language of chips, cake, cereal, breakfast sausage, taco shells, easy noodles. By doing so, she acknowledges something we all know about ourselves: For all our slow-cooking, sustainable gardening ambitions, we are a nation of snackers.
We eat stuff out of bags and cans. Lillien has turned her conviction that she can lose weight while still eating her favorite foods -- or at least some version of them -- into the latest entry in the highly competitive and ever-changing diet field. "I know exactly what people will like," she says. "I just know. I'm that way. When I taste something, I can say, 'You know what? I like it okay, but only 20 percent of the people will like it,' or 'If I really like it, then 99 percent of people will like it, too.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
World’s most tedious people (preachy division)
-Liberals
-Ex alcohol/drug/nicotine addicts
-MADD
-Ex fatties turned amateur diet experts
Add animal rights activists, and I think we’ve got ‘em covered.
especially them! and most of them are pro-choice,if not all of them!
I started to read it but she lost me at organic.....sigh.....
What bothers you so much about organic food?
Nothing bothers me about organic food I will only drink organic milk because it tastes yummy and has long shelf life......I happen to buy the stuff......I am just overloaded with all the “you have to be green” stuff on the news, on TV, every where I look.....
Lillien knows she has critics out there. "People are hypocrites," she says. "They say 'shop the perimeter of the store, never eat anything that's not organic,' but it's B.S., because people can't live like that forever."
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