2 Thin Chefs

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Still, nearly everyone has eaten to the point of vomiting, yet many don't learn portion control. After their youthful bingeing, De Laurentiis and Goin intuited another important lesson: that some "cookies" were far better than others. "If I am really starving, I will eat airplane food," says Goin, grimacing. "But I would rather not eat the macadamia chicken on the airplane and [instead] get to have that supergood bread slathered with lardo," she adds, referring to the whipped cured pork fat served at the Manhattan restaurant Del Posto, where we were dining. Which suggests a new kind of diet plan: eat like these chefs. Become a food snob. You'll experience important culinary revelations: Those Entenmann's Softee Frosted Donuts in the vending machine? They're horrible. Gummy on the outside, dry on the inside. It's prison food. Wait instead for a nice plate of chicken Tetrazzini when you get home. That is, a nice salad plate's worth.