Dylan George Jeans against Cupcakes

To fit into a pair of 24 jeans is a dream come true. It means a lot of things: that the daily power walks when you would rather be sleeping are actually working, that drinking more than two liters of water a day actually gives results. 

Also, that restricting yourself to one Crumbs Red Velvet Cupcake a week is actually a good idea

Ok, this pair is a sample so it might be something wrong with the sizing, but it’s ok. It might be my first and last pair of 24s, ever, but thanks Dylan George ( amazing Los Angeles jeans) for messing up your samples and making my day a little bit better.

Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.

This is The Delboeuf Illusion. It is an optical illusion of relative size perception. Pretty simple, yes?

Now imagine food portions instead of the black circles. Yes, I could have made some food and taken pictures on it on different sizes plates... but, it's good to use your imagination from time to time. Imagine, let's say, some chicken and fries. Seeing the first plate, you would think " I will need more, this is not enough". In a smaller plate, "This is a lot of food, I will be fed with this."

This is what Dr. Brian Wansink discovered, and you can read this and more in his book " Mindless eating".Here is the website. 

Optical illusion leads us to make inaccurate estimates of serving size, depending on what the size of the plate.  The more "white space" around the circle, the smaller it appears and you feel you need more.

Sizes in US are so much bigger than the ones in Europe. No wonder so many people are overweight. I don't think this alone will make people lose weight, but it's a start. Start using smaller plates.

What you serve on these small plates, this is another story.

Try this:

Levitating Burger

See more and buy the $625 cooking book, Modernist Cuisine, here. 

You can place this in a small plate also. And eat guilt-free.

Soup. Secret Eastern European recipe discovered on a Hollywood set.

For illustration purposes, I am using Natalia Vodianova. I am sure she eats soup. I don't know who took this picture, so whoever it is, they have the right to the picture. I am just illustrating a soup eater. And a mother of three. Here is her foundation that helps build playgrounds for children in Russia.

Too much fashion gets boring sometimes... and a girl needs to eat. Not too much, to fit into that sample size.
Soups are amazing, and the Eastern European soups are the best. Ever wondered why those Eastern Europeans girls look amazing? Well, lot of things... secret things... but one of them is eating soup. Instead of pasta or fries and fast-food.


So, this is an exceptional food post. And, if even an unexperienced cook as myself can make this, so can you.
I don't know how to write a recipe so I will just explain it to you as it was explained to me~ on a Hollywood set. From an Eastern european supermodel~Can't get better than that.


You put some water to boil. The quantity of water in not determined, but you should put more than just for a cup of coffee. Let your intelligence help you with this one.


Add salt, pepper and some seasonings to the water. Again, everything is relative.


Get some chicken drums and put them in the boiling water.


Get a carrot, parsnip, celery, onion and a tomato.


Chop everything and put the vegetables in the boiling water.


Add rice, quinoa or pasta too, if you want.


Let everything boil, add more seasonings, add parsley at the end and Bon Appetit.


Seriously, just that?


Seriously, yes.