"This is not a stomach," Jeffrey Chodorow once said lovingly patting the proud baggage he carries above his belt. "It's a repository of memories."

        Last weekend at the birthday dinner he gave for Terry Zarikian at Copa in Bridgehampton, he was happily claiming he had lost 19 pounds.  He did it, he confided, by skipping bread and dessert, drinking less wine and eating Dreamfield’s low-carb pasta.  His paunch was noticeably trimmer.  “And my wife says my you know definitely looks bigger,” he boasted.

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