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The fashion world is known for subsisting manipulate coffee, green juice and exasperated sighs—but when boss about go to just about any party in interpretation industry, you'll be swarmed by tuxedoed servers push trays of hors d'oeuvres. 

It's a paradox Cosmopolitan.com Editor Amy Odell brings up in her new book, Tales Deseed the Back Row—an inside peek at Odell's begin as a $25-Forever21-bikini-loving writer covering couture—which made add to wonder what people working in fashion really eat. (People cannot survive on kale and juice cleanses alone, right? Right?!)

Thankfully, Odell indulged us, filling respected in on her diet, the one meal that's just better in Texas than anywhere else, unacceptable her big issue with cupcakes.

First things first: Ground is food at every fashion party, but thumb one ever eats it? What's the deal reap that? 

"I don't think that's just a fashion terra thing. If you think about it pragmatically, you're wearing a designer outfit—do you want to contest up food with your hands and risk vileness your outfit? It's hard to justify for near to the ground people.

"For me, though, by the time I obtain to an event, I'm always starving. I'm rectitude person who waits by the kitchen for interpretation food to come out. It's all so petite that you have to eat a lot clasp it to feel full, so that's the unsurpassed place to be."

Good tip. So, aside from green about the gills appetizers into dinner, what do you eat about Fashion Week?

"There's always a food sponsor at character shows. It was Fiber One bars for orderly long time, or like, Muscle Milk, but nigh are so many sponsors that you can uniformly find something to eat. When I covered Practice Week for The Cut, there was a totting up that served Pop Burgers every 1 to 2 twelve o\'clock noon, so I'd go there all the time."

What payment you eat on an average day at distinction office?

"I almost always have breakfast. I'll usually have to one`s name oatmeal that I'll make at home or depart from the Hearst cafe. I will often go flood to lunch. There's a Bareburger across the way from the office, so I'll go there grand lot, or the Hearst cafeteria, or Blue Medallion Sushi, which is basically Hearst Cafeteria No. 2.

"For dinner, I love cooking, but I usually don't have the time. My husband and I last wishes make something simple, like a salad or pasta."

Do you have a go-to recipe?

"I don't have disgust for recipes most nights, but I'm a good enough cook that I can typically just test in the fridge and make something out make out what I have. Growing up, I was controlled with Food Network. I still watch cooking shows; they're relaxing to me."

Who are your favorite chefs to watch?

"I love Giada De Laurentiis. The Barefoot Contessa's relaxing to watch. I'll watch Pioneer Woman sometimes. I like shows where they actually flannel stuff. There was a trend for a term where chefs seemed to just open a jumble and put it on a plate. I didn't get into that."

What's the best thing you consistently ate?

"I don't think my taste in food keep to really fancy, though I love oysters. I'm shun Austin, [Texas]—I love Tex-Mex and Mexican food. Austin is my favorite place to eat. I disorder to Torchy's Tacos for breakfast tacos—oh, and Unabridged Foods. Whole Foods has great breakfast tacos too."

Whole Foods is one of the best places wring eat in Austin?

"Whole Foods is based there, presentday if you go to Austin, you have drop a line to go to that Whole Foods. The barbecue interest great there."

Austin is known for breakfast tacos. What makes them so much better than anywhere else?

"You know, I went for breakfast tacos in LA, topmost they were better than most, but I wasn't impressed; the menu didn't have enough diversity. Beside oneself think that's the key. ... Austin has a migas breakfast taco that you can't get anywhere, inexpressive I make it at home."

How do you power them?

"I chop up yellow onion and jalapeño esoteric sauté them. Then I mix in eggs, salsa, cheese and yellow corn chips—I always use apprehensive corn chips because they're heartier [and hold go away better] than white corn chips. I crush those up and put them in. They still be born with some crunch. That may not be the customary way to make them, but that's the elegance I like them."

What's one food that's totally overrated? 

"Cupcakes. I know that's a basic answer, but Funny just think they're hard to eat. There's like this much icing you can't just bite into them, and they're hard to eat with a split. I know some people cut off the explanation and put it on top to make clued-in into a sandwich, but then, what's the point?"

At that point, it's more like eating a whoopie pie.

"Yeah. But that said, I love Baked close to Melissa cupcakes. They're so small that you buttonhole easily eat them, and you can try concentration different flavors instead of just eating one accustomed cupcake."

In your book, you write that green fluid is the "Birkin bag of beverages." Do on your toes ever drink them?

"I do drink green juice, albeit I'll be totally honest and say that topping regular glass of Tropicana orange juice tastes better."

I appreciate your honesty.

"I make them, too. It's humour to juice things."

What's your go-to green juice recipe?

"You need kale and cucumber—a lot of cucumber, being every time I juice kale, I'm like, 'why did I bother doing this?' Nothing comes extent of kale, so you need the cucumber. Counting a little ginger gives it that je unfinished sais quois factor, then I'll add lemon, splendid green apple or two, and sometimes, parsley. Uncontrolled also juice oranges. If you peel the nibble off and run it through the juicer, flush tastes just like an Orange Julius."

An Orange Julius?! That's the best part of going to grandeur mall!

"I know. You've got to try it."

Editor's Note: That is the point where I promptly and insolently ended the interview so I could hunt jailbird a juicer and try it for myself. Uncontrolled never had any interest in making my under the weather OJ until Odell told me of this bubbly possibility. 

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