{"id":271,"date":"2005-06-22T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/06\/opening_the_clam.html"},"modified":"2005-06-22T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T19:17:21","slug":"opening_the_cla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/opening_the_cla.html","title":{"rendered":"Opening the Clam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Restaurant Impresario Jeffrey Chodorow on what it’s like to be a lesbian trapped in a man’s body<\/a>, er, a foodie trapped in a businessman’s body:<\/p>\n

“Let me just say this to you,” Mr. Chodorow said over a table loaded with platters of soft lobster pancakes (“my favorite”) and gooey lamb spareribs. “Unfortunately most people – and we’re sort of changing that now – but most people thought of me as a wealthy investor guy who just invested money in restaurants. A business person who just opened up these mega-restaurants, and it was just about the money.”<\/p>\n

“But that was so far from the truth,” he continued, sounding vaguely distressed as he picked at a dumpling with a fork. “You know how they say, ‘I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body?'”<\/p>\n

Across the table, Karine Bakhoum, Mr. Chodorow’s friend and public relations adviser, dropped a chopstick. “Oh please, please!” she said. “Don’t print that! He’s a foodie.” She turned to Mr. Chodorow. “You’re a foodie!”<\/p>\n

“I’m a foodie,” Mr. Chodorow said agreeably. “Trapped in a business person’s body. People say about me, I’d go around the world for the opening of a clam.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Restaurant Impresario Jeffrey Chodorow on what it’s like to be a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, er, a foodie trapped in a businessman’s body: “Let me just say this to you,” Mr. Chodorow said over a table loaded with platters of soft lobster pancakes (“my favorite”) and gooey lamb spareribs. “Unfortunately most people – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}