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In What We Eat When We Eat Alone: Stories and 100 Recipes, Deborah Madison talks about an assignment that her spouse and co-author, Patrick McFarlin, had for a creative writing class, which was to keep a log of everything he ate or drank for a week. At the end of the week, the teacher shuffled the eating logs and handed them back to the class with the names removed, and each student had to form an outline of the person whose log they’d received, based on the log. The idea intrigues me because on the one hand, it could reflect the reader’s reliance on, for example, gendered stereotypes, and What We Eat mentions this, suggesting that an eating log filled with salad and chicken breasts belongs to a woman. On the other hand, it examines a person’s personality through an unconventional window. Thus, the exercise could end up telling you about the person who ate–or it could end up telling you about yourself and the biases you bring to data interpretation. I’m interested in keeping a log and seeing what picture you could build of me and the extent to which my eating habits align with or deviate from stereotypes. I think of my eating habits as deeply influenced by my personal history–my love for Rome, which has personal significance for me beyond my interest in Ancient Rome–and ethnic background, but they also change from week to week based on my mood, work schedule, the season, and what I’ve been reading lately. I suspect that you could create many different profiles based on my eating log, so let’s put that to the test by keeping track of what I’ve been having for meals.

Toasted, seed-covered bagel, two cups of coffee, two persimmons
Regular pastrami sandwich on white bread from Togo’s, with pastrami and lettuce only, and a mini can of Coke
Persimmon
Beef chow fun and fried rice at Yamo, a bit of Diet Coke
Fun size Butterfinger
Water crackers with homemade bitter lemon marmalade
Bacon