Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.