arts & life

Chew The
Right Thing

"Hungry Girl" Lisa

Lillien loves food

— and will tell us

about her favorites

during a visit to

Detroit.

Lisa Lillien is the guest
speaker at Sisterhood's
Donor Day, Tuesday,
May 12, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue in Farmington
Hills. Boutiques will be
open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The
lunch program begins at
noon. Program tickets
start at $54. (248) 851-
5100; adatshalom.org .

Celebrity Jews

Nate Bloom

Special to the Jewish News

THE TIME 100
The April 27/May 4 issue of
Time magazine features its
annual list of the 100 Most
Influential People; of the 100,
16 percent are members of
the tribe. In the Titans cat-
egory: Bob Iger, 64, CEO of
Disney; Lorne Michaels, 70,
the creator and producer
of SNL; Susan Wojcick (her
mother is Jewish), 46, an
advertising executive with
Google (her ex-brother-in-law

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t's 7 a.m. in California, and
Lisa Lillien has just eaten half
a banana. She'll have breakfast
a little later — Greek yogurt with
half an apple and high-fiber cereal
sprinkled on top.
Lillien likes some fruit before
a workout, and this morning she
has prepared for a conversational
workout, talking by phone about
her 10th book (an 11th is in the
works) and the attention it will get
during an upcoming presentation
in Farmington Hills.
Lillien, better known as "The
Hungry Girl; is introducing The
Hungry Girl Diet Cookbook (St.
Martin's Griffin; $27.99). It expands
her approach to tasty, healthy and
filling food choices as presented
through a website (hungry-girl.
com), magazine columns (in
Redbook and on People.com), tele-
vision appearances and her own
TV show, Hungry Girl, which airs
on both the Food Network and the
Cooking Channel.
"The brand always has been
about real-world survival, embrac-
ing food and having fun with it,
especially eating more of if,' says

is Google co-founder Sergey
Brin, 41) and CEO of YouTube
since 2014; Janet Yellen,
69, the chair of the Federal
Reserve System; Danny
Meyer, 57, a trained chef who
created several acclaimed
restaurants featuring new
American cuisine, including
his flagship, the Union Square
in NYC. In the category
Pioneers: Dr. Martin Blaser,
67, an infectious-disease
expert who discovered that
microbes have a role in caus-
ing some forms of cancer, he
also is active in the campaign
to stop the overuse of antibi-
otics. Blaser wrote an article
about a massacre of Jews

Lillien, whose inventive dishes will
make up the kosher meal at Adat
Shalom Sisterhood's Donor Day,
Tuesday, May 12, when she will be
interviewed by Cheryl Chodun,
former WXYZ-TV reporter.
"While portion control is impor-
tant, I tend to find ways to give
people recipes with huge portions
because people are hungry and
don't want to be told they can't eat
a lot:'
In the new book, she features
200 recipes developed with her
team of 12 and approved by a dieti-
cian. Examples include unstuffed
cabbage rolls with side salad, mini
pizza-stuffed mushrooms and
double-chocolate brownie bites
(see recipe).
What makes this book different
from earlier projects is that all the
recipes are nutritionally balanced.
That means readers can pick any
breakfast, lunch, dinner and three
snacks to have an appropriate
amount of calories and nutrients
for one day.
"I'm a little bit of a mad scientist
when coming up with recipes:' says
Lillien, whose book also includes
preparation and shopping advice.
"I have a great team so once we
decide what we're going to whip
up, I get in the kitchen to try out

during the 1300s – the Jews
were blamed for the Black
Death, in part because they
were dying in fewer numbers,
possibly due, he wrote, to
Jews clearing their homes
of "rat-tempting" food for
Passover; Sarah Koenig, 46,
radio journalist and creator of
the acclaimed Serial podcast.
Her husband is a Jewish stud-
ies professor.
Artist catego-
ry: Julianna

Margulies,

48, star of

Schumer

The Good
Wife; Amy
Schumer,
33, whose

recipes developed on paper:'
Inspiration comes from brain-
storming, testing and wanting to
swap out ingredient ideas she gets
from subscribers to her website,
restaurant experiences and dishes
seen on television.
"I have always been a creative
type and wanted a job that was
fun and entertaining; says Lillien,
a communications graduate of
the University of Albany. "Right
out of school, I was editing teen
magazines and went on to work for
Nickelodeon and Warner Bros.
"In 2003, I had the idea to
launch Hungry Girl. Back then,
there was no regular person giving
information on the subject so it
was groundbreaking and innova-
tive.

Comedy Central program,
Inside Amy Schumer, began
its third season on April
21; Jill Soloway, 49, TV/
film writer and director and
creator of the acclaimed
series Transparent, about a
Jewish transsexual. Leader
category: Dr. Tom Frieden,
55, head of the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC); his oldest
brother, Jeffrey Frieden, is a
Harvard political economist
and his middle brother, Ken
Frieden, is chair of interdis-
ciplinary Judaic studies at
Syracuse University and a
klezmer musician; Benjamin
Netanyahu, 65, Israeli prime

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"I started it
as a (free) daily email service. It
wasn't about recipes; it was about
food reviews, advice and just fun
ways of dispersing that informa-
tion. Cooking is only one slice
of what this brand has come to
mean:"

minister; Adam Silver, 52,
NBA commissioner; a law-
yer, he has worked in many
NBA-related jobs since 1992.
Icon category: Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, 82, Supreme
Court Justice; Diane Von
Furstenberg, 68, iconic cloth-
ing designer; and Ina Garten,
67, a White House budget
expert who re-invented her-
self as a famous chef ("The
Barefoot Contessa").

AT THE MOVIES
Opening this week: The bro-
mance comedy The D Train
stars Jack Black, 45, as Dan
Landsman, a Pittsburgh-
based loser who convinces his