What Pat Ate for Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. And Breakfast.

Friday, 18 March 2011 | by Pat's Picks

I’m the subject of the New York Magazine food blog’s “New York Diet” feature today. Every week they ask someone to talk about EVERYTHING he or she ate that week. My instinct (40 minutes into the interview) was that this is too much information. But on Twitter today Andrew Beaujon was among many who shared the link. He described today’s Grub Street installment as “strangely compelling.”

Writer Jillian Goodman, thankfully, condensed our 50 minute interview somewhat. The blow-by-blow of a week of my eating habits mostly speaks for itself. But I’ll add one note: I really don’t eat as much Trader Joe’s as the rundown implies. I like Trader Joe’s, but it just happened to work out that I bought a lot of stuff there on the first day of the “Diet” and then spent the rest of the week using it up.

And here’s one other reaction from Twitter that I chuckled over. Ken Wheaton wrote: