Thursday, August 10, 2006
Food Poisoning is Great!
Over the weekend I went to Mario Batali's Spanish restaurant in Gramercy Park. Casa Mono is a pleasant little joint with a fun menu of tapas type items and a very good spanish wine list. I ate a late lunch with a couple of friends and we shared plates of everything from pork loin to octopus to mussels to snap peas. It was all very good and a bottle of 1995 Rioja Rosado by a producer I can't remember brought it all together nicely. Terrific times were had by all until later that night.
I suddenly came down with a mild case of food poisoning. By noon the next day, the "evacuation" had stopped but I was still suffering the effects. General weakness, no appetite and some very bizarre rumblings in the gut stuck with me until Tuesday or so. By wednesday, I was on a mostly normal diet and had a much cheerier view on the experience. I came to recognize the upside of food poisoning:
-Great way to lose weight! Your output is immense and the input minimul. It doesn't take a mathematician to calculate the weight loss potential!
-Money saving! Since I ate the equivalent of a day's worth of food over the course of three days, I spent very little money on food. This was a nice way to recoup the expense of eating at a Batali restaurant.
-Mandatory purge and cleanse! You evacuate your bowels and stomach, don't eat for a couple of days, sleep whenever you can and drink lots of water. Even after its over, you avoid rich, fatty foods and alcohol for a few days. What a great opportunity to do a little detox and let the body catch up.
I highly recommend food poisoning to anyone who's looking to shake things up a little bit. What's more, you can really broaden your horizons and taste those forbidden morsels you've always wanted to but haven't for fear of getting sick! Bring on the questionable shellfish, serve up some "aged" beef and gulp down as many spponfuls of cookie batter as you can take!
I suddenly came down with a mild case of food poisoning. By noon the next day, the "evacuation" had stopped but I was still suffering the effects. General weakness, no appetite and some very bizarre rumblings in the gut stuck with me until Tuesday or so. By wednesday, I was on a mostly normal diet and had a much cheerier view on the experience. I came to recognize the upside of food poisoning:
-Great way to lose weight! Your output is immense and the input minimul. It doesn't take a mathematician to calculate the weight loss potential!
-Money saving! Since I ate the equivalent of a day's worth of food over the course of three days, I spent very little money on food. This was a nice way to recoup the expense of eating at a Batali restaurant.
-Mandatory purge and cleanse! You evacuate your bowels and stomach, don't eat for a couple of days, sleep whenever you can and drink lots of water. Even after its over, you avoid rich, fatty foods and alcohol for a few days. What a great opportunity to do a little detox and let the body catch up.
I highly recommend food poisoning to anyone who's looking to shake things up a little bit. What's more, you can really broaden your horizons and taste those forbidden morsels you've always wanted to but haven't for fear of getting sick! Bring on the questionable shellfish, serve up some "aged" beef and gulp down as many spponfuls of cookie batter as you can take!
# posted by Yossie @ 11:03 AM 
