food, cooking, wine, cocktails, escapades, avventura, holidays (both kinds!), politics, people, amazing conversation, New York City, museums in the afternoon, speakeasies at night, and walking home through the West Village at sunrise.
Music
a growling stomach.
Movies
Manhattan, Eat Drink Man Woman, Chocolat, Ratatouille, Goonies, and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
Television
Top Chef, Iron Chef America, Food Network (minus Rachel Ray & Sandra Lee), Law & Order (minus SVU), all the great HBO sitcoms and dramas (you know of which I speak), Meet the Press, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Little People Big World, John and Kate Plus 8, and almost anything on Bravo.
Books
Real Food, In Defense of Food, The United States of Arugula, Heat, Tender at the Bone, The Art of Eating, The Master and Margarita, Beard on Food, Kitchen Confidential, Eat, Pray, Love, At Home with Magnolia, Greenmarket, How To Be A Domestic Goddess, Jamie's Italy, Larousse Gastronomique, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Molto Italiano, Becoming a Chef, The Vineyard Kitchen, Mama Day, The Sun Also Rises, and East of Eden.
Heroes
Women, line cooks, Jamie Oliver, Julia Childs, Alice Waters, Lydia Bastianich, Maureen Dowd, Thomas Freidman, Grandma Lipstick
Favorite Quotes
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." — H.L. Mencken
"Let them eat cake." Marie Antoinette
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." "There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love." MLK
"I tease. I love the President." Bill Maher
"Life is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world." Joe Campbell
"I have to go to France." Bill Buford
“Worries go down better with soup.” ~Jewish Proverb
“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors And furniture polish is made from real lemons.“ ~Alfred E. Newman
“Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.” ~Gael Greene
“America is the only place in the world where you can work in an Arab home in a Scandinavian neighborhood and find a Puerto Rican baby eating matzo balls with chopsticks.” - Nipsey Russel
I'm a FOOD maven. I love food. I eat food. I cook, bake, drink, and dine. I've catered; I've waitered; I write; I bake, talk food, walk food, and most certainly stalk food. Midnight Eggs: Chronicle of a Food Life is my daily dish on what’s tempting the taste buds of this New Yorker.
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Someone who doesn't like french fries (if such a fool exists!), foodies, cooks, New Yorkers, chefs and amateur gourmets, people who believe that we can change the way we live by changing the way we eat.
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