The Grub Street Diet

“I literally buy everything, including clothes, online, with the exception of groceries. I have to see them myself.”

“We tried about 20 different bottles of wine.”

“We ate family-style — meaning I can eat seven times as much food as I normally would, and no one is the wiser.”

“Trader Joe’s fig cookies haunt me. They’re spectacularly good.”

“Spice has a lot of healing antioxidants.”

"I love minty things in the summer."

"Ordering a pizza anytime after midnight and eating at least three slices is super dark."

"The first dish I had at Prune and thought Oh my God was the monkfish liver."

"My relationship to these chips is so intense that I can distinguish between production runs."

"We needed something light ... so I made my 'Megg-muffins.'"

"That night the label was paying for dinner, and we went to this amazing Basque restaurant."

"When I was pregnant with Maayan, I had pho every day for the first five months."

"I literally have to be rolled out of the restaurant and into Beautiful, feeling slightly bloated."

"The more I eat, the closer I get to death by cardiac arrest. But if I stop, am I even living?"

"I play Valencia on the show, and her dietary rules are completely opposite of mine. I love to eat."

"It's a federal law that people of Jewish descent have to order Asian takeout once a week."

"I snagged some of that before passing out on my pillow, dreaming about carbs."

"It's a hit-or-miss joke with the staff, but it makes me laugh, and it makes my husband roll his eyes ... I know he's laughing on the inside."

"I think if I had the strength of my convictions, I would be vegetarian."

"If this diary reveals anything, it’s that caffeine is my friend."