Food FYI: What Olympic athletes eat

By Betty Hallock

Aug. 2, 2012 12 AM PT

OLYMPIC APPETITES

Olympic athletes consume several thousand calories a day -- often in the form of junk food. “I love fatty desserts,” says gold medalist swimmer Nathan Adrian, such as white cake topped with rainbow sprinkles. [Wall Street Journal]

BURNING QUESTIONS

Norman Lear answers the query: What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York? (And he’s 90 but has 17-year-old daughters?!) [New York magazine]

ON VALUE AND TRUFFLES

“Is it really worth spending money on fine dining when so much of the happiness we experience is simply our brains fleeing from cognitive dissonance?” [The Atlantic]

LOOK WHO

Russell Brand and his skinny jeans had dinner at Dominick’s in West Hollywood. [X17]

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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