diets

Against The Grain baguettes are chewy, moist, flavorful, slightly crisp and full of yeasty umami flavor. They also have 24 grams of fat per medium-sized baguette (which I consider to be normal sandwich-sized), because it's literally bread made out of mozzarella. The ingredients listed are tapioca starch, milk, eggs, mozzarella cheese, canola oil and salt.

Before Jason Tilmann was the remarkably fit executive chef at NYC's Triomphe at the Iroquois Hotel, he was a 300-pound Floridian who'd never met a lasagna he didn't like. How'd he slim down and keep it off, even though he spends his days surrounded by food in a kitchen? 

Today, Peter Kaminsky's latest book, Culinary Intelligence, hits bookshelves, and in it, he describes how his job as a professional eater led to a battle of the bulge and a stern warning from doctors about the threat of diabetes and even death. Full interview after the jump.