When food is your career, it’s a balancing act to keep your body in check as well.
In a Newsweek article titled “The Gourmet’s Dilemma,” author Alicia Coffman interviewed many food writers around the country to see how they keep from looking like the chowhound their profession would have them be.
In a ‘dream job’ where one ‘tasting’ can have 1,000 calories or more, food writers find themselves compromising at home and in the gym.
“When I’m not working I have to eat like a rabbit and exercise like a crazy person,” said Karen Fernau, a food writer for The Arizona Republic, in Coffman’s article.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is an example that, while extreme, exemplifies this concept of openly loving food and keeping a svelte celeb shape. Paltrow and world-renowned chef Mario Batali took a road-trip around Spain last year for a documentary centered around food and culture entitled “Spain…On The Road Again.”