Margeaux Supper Parlor in Cambridge offers menu with shareable flights
Looking for a food adventure? Former Middle School teacher opens Margeaux Supper Parlor in Cambridge offers shareable flights inspired by New Orleans and New England.
Friends often tell me how lucky I am to be a food and dining reporter, because I get to visit so many eastern Massachusetts restaurants. What they don’t realize is that there are hazards that come with my job, such as the calories I’m faced with every time I do a review.
I recently had a checkup and, due to recent high blood pressure readings, was ordered by my doctor to lose weight by limiting my calories to 1,000 a day.
“So, basically, you’re telling me to eat like a bird,” I said to her.
“Yes,” she answered.
I then countered: “But, I’m a food and dining reporter!”
She laughed and said, “Joanna, instead of eating the whole thing, just have a bite to taste.”
Mind you, she has the body of a perfect Barbie and she’s nowhere near menopause.
The journey to lose weight is not an easy one
But, since that appointment, I’ve been really trying. It’s definitely not easy.
How do I write about oversized macarons and not try one?
How do I tour a gluten-free bakery and not walk out with a boxful of banana bread, cookies and brownies?
How do I refuse a 2-foot-long chocolate babka?
My doctor also recommended avoiding alcohol. “Think of alcohol as poison,” she said.
I don’t have as much of a problem with this life change. I can order mocktails instead of cocktails, although one mocktail could be 1,000 calories. I’m better off just having seltzer with a little lime.
What’s even more challenging about going “dry” is when I’m out with a group and everyone at the table orders an alcoholic beverage.
Then, the waiter asks what I’d like to order and I answer, “I’ll have a virgin margarita.”
I feel like I’m the elephant in the room, when I’m really trying to avoid just that — being an elephant (excuse the pun).
How do I nominate a best bar in America for a USA Today story I’m writing when I can’t even try the bar’s signature martini?
I hate to order a drink, take photos and a video of it being made, only to have it go to waste.
Hard as it is, I’ve achieved it before
Oh, how I long to be the Get In Shape for Women postcard model that I was in January 2019.
But over the past six years, the three-digit number on the scale has gotten a little bit higher. It’s now at a number I do not like and have to change. My job is no excuse.
I have a follow-up checkup with Dr. Barbie at the end of May. Let the countdown begin to my journey to a healthier me.
To see articles written by Joanna Tzouvelis, visit www.wickedlocal.com/staff/5983054002/joanna-k-tzouvelis/.
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