Food Glorious Food

Can we talk about the food here? Yesterday I went to the 24 Hour Kitchen with Eric Lampaert. After we’d driven around for about half an hour, working up quite an appetite, let me say, we finally found the place. I’d been there once before and Jennifer Love Hewitt had been dining out with a couple of friends. Although this time she weirdly decided not to meet me there, there were two very cool looking black guys, one of which was nodding off after his hearty burger. Talk about make yourself comfortable. I was half expecting the waiter to bring him his slippers. If these guys were famous this was where my my lack of knowledge of LA rap scene could prove to be a problem.

Anyway, it was a nice place to hang out and once my incredulity at the lack of parking in the area  had subsided, we ordered some food. Eric decided that because he’d eaten so many burgers. When in Rome and all that.

When Eric's salad arrived it looked like an entire forest had been felled and served up and there was enough meat to feed a leopard cub. The meatloaf was served in a pie pastry with a mushroom sauce, veggies and fries. It was – deee-lish but repeated more than the episode of Friends where Rachel makes triffle with okra.

Having (kind of) put myself on my own made up lo-carb LA diet, I decided that I wasn’t allowed to have an evening meal to make up for the 10,000 calories I’d just consumed. 

Instead I went to the Laugh Factory and had three beers – coz beer's low in calories, right?

The next day, on LA today, there was a feature on how there are some restaurant meals that have excessively high calorie counts, sometimes in the thousands. I’m pretty sure the meatloaf meal, which did defeat me in the end, was one of them.

One week in

Hmmm, I've been here a whole week now. The Golden Globes were last night, the weather has been awesome while I know, God is shacking his freezing dandruff all over the country back home but yet none of thing things I'd expect to happen here in Lala land have occurred. I haven't seen a single celebrity, I haven't been randomly selected for movie stardom in a grocery line. I haven't even been caught on tape getting beaten up by the po-leeece (aka Feds, po-po and 5-oh).

There was however, an incredibly tedious 'high speed' car chase on the news the other night. The newscasters could barely contain their delight as the story unfolded. They were practically willing the guy to go on the freeway so things could get 'interesting'. What actually happened was the guy ended up going round and round the same block while the newscasters tried to make each turn sound like a new development. 'Well he almost went on the 405 there but he's heading north on La Cienega... Again... Which is of course, very close to the 405... Should he choose to take it again... If you're just joining us, there's a high speed chase on near the 405, I believe on La Cienega'