She's a sage of deliciousity.Īnd what's the best recommendation she's ever given you? She took me to Prune for brunch on my last NYC trip and I had this bowl of carbonara I just can't stop thinking about. She knows the word on the street, any street. She knows the best places to eat wherever you go from San Francisco to Chicago, New York and Vietnam. Who's yours? I utterly rely on my best friend Pritters. As a twitter addict, I'd be remiss to not mention how I live for tweets from and Their professional words of wisdom keep me sane.Įveryone has a go-to person they call for restaurant recommendations. My family pretty much regards me as a gravy train of dessert (ganache train?), so they're quite supportive.įavorite food sites or blogs? I make almost every single thing Ben posts on You Fed a Baby Chili? and I am waiting with bated breath for the next entry from Finding Sachi. This has severely tainted my friendship-pool in favor of crazed maniacs. What do your family and friends think of your food obsessions? I've worked in restaurants since I turned fourteen, went to culinary school straight out of high school, and have never held a non-restaurant job. She said, "I don't care." I couldn't fathom genuinely not caring about what you wanted to eat. As a kid, I had a friend over at my house and asked her what she wanted to eat for a snack. When did you first realize you were a serious eater? I grew up in a family of serious eaters, so the bigger revelations was when I realized other people weren't. I've lost forty five minutes of my life just trying to process it. I'll have to special order some.įavorite food person? This question is doing to my brain what dividing by zero does to a computer. I never see it on menus and it doesn't turn up at the grocery. What would you like to try but haven't yet? Goose. Now, anything that even hints at being in the same flavor family churns my stomach. I had an indescribably bad run-in with Absinthe when I lived in Japan (who knew real absinthe was legal there, haha!). What food won't you eat? Anything with a sharp anise or licorice flavor. I love sitting down to a meal when I've had a chance to anticipate it all day. A lazy day off, spent hanging out with John, drinking wine and playing video games in between babysitting a pot of stew or a braise or something that doesn't have much active time. My perfect meal has nothing to do with the food itself, but the circumstances. Having "a bowl of cereal" is for quitters I see boxes as individual serving sizes.ĭescribe your perfect meal. I had to ban cereal from our house because I gain my chief pleasure in life from eating an entire box. I will play the whole "just a splash more milk! Well, whoopsie just a bit more cereal" game until I've killed the box.
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