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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Wednesday’s Top Five: Super Food Spots
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WANT TO BE LIKE WONDER WOMAN? Better eat more meat and beans…
Illustration: Alex Ross
As part of the monthly ritual involved in writing for a newspaper, one of the perks is getting magazines for free. This is a particularly good thing when the only thing you want to read in Oprah is the article entitled “are you too busy for your life?” or when, in the supermarket line you don’t catch that Cosmo’s monthly sex tip is the same one they gave last month, only with different models. It’s nice not to have to shell out the few bucks it takes to get these gems on the news stands.
And since it’s so involved being moi, my colleagues usually dump copies of Self on my desk so I can check out “look divine from behind!” This month’s issue, though, actually had me reading an in-depth (well, as in-depth as Self gets) look at 20 superfoods that, for one reason or another, can help you lose weight (my favorite subject besides chocolate).
Tops on the list? Eggs. Why? The protein in these white-and-yellow orbs is super dense and super groovy. Steak. Why? Protein, baby. The protein in red meat helps retain muscle mass. That explains South Beach in a nutshell. In addition to steel-cut oats and kale, there’s also lentils, blueberries and almond butter (which apparently lowers the glycemic index of the bread you just spread it on — making your blood sugar dip less).
A trip the light fantastic through Atlanta with superfoods as my parameter brought me to the following five spots that can deliver the power:
Bones — dang it all these steaks are good. The bone-in ribeye is a South Beach and Atkins fever dream. And you can get 22 ounces of it.
Holeman & Finch — try your egg poached with roasted bacon over a johnny cake with sorghum syrup. That should get your blood sugar going.
Tasty China — the dan dan noodle soup in chile sauce should make it easy for you to get your daily quota of chiles, which will spike your bloodstream with capsaicin, making you burn extra calories for up to 20 minutes after eating it (I’m not making this stuff up).
Sotto Sotto — as part of the Inman Park Italian spot’s app list, you can eat your way through a tasting of estate-bottled olive oil (this “healthy” fat tames hunger and has anti-inflammatory properties). Drizzle away!
Yoforia — this rockin’ hip that’s so 70s joint serves up a sweet yogurt trio of fat, protein and carbs (a triple threat!) — staving off hunger and helping to prevent that horrible mid-life belly fat. Go ahead and splurge with a topping of Captain Crunch. You ate all that olive oil, after all.
Where do you go to rev up your diet?
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