cooking, baking, food in general, reading, making money (even just a little) on the internet, staying in B&B's, wine tours in out of the way places, driving vacations
Music
Does NPR count? I'm a bit schizophrenic about music. I like the music I grew up with in the 70's--Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Rush, Lynard Skynard, Jethro Tull, etc-- but I'm also a big fan of modern folk--I love David Wilcox. And Luciano Pavoratti's voice always makes me cry. In a good way. Almost anything they play on my Pandora stations is good for me, too.
Movies
First, the films: Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Heaven, Kitchen Stories, The Constant Gardener, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, To Kill a Mockingbird, Babette's Feast, Brokeback Mountain, 84 Charing Cross Road, Crossing Delancey, House of Flying Daggers, Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moan, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Maria Full of Grace, Pleasantville, The Trip to Bountiful, Waking Ned Divine, Finding Neverland.
And now for the movies: Independence Day, Men in Black, Say Anything, Some Kind of Wonderful, Overboard, The Goonies, Friday, Barbershop, Better Off Dead, The Terminator, From Dusk Til Dawn, Office Space, Grease, Ghost.
Television
Top Chef, No Reservations, Heroes, any marathon of anything--I'm easy that way, Bones
Books
The Lions of al Rassan, Watership Down, To Kill a Mockingbird, LOTR trilogy, The Talisman, cookbooks with recipes written by weight, not volume
Heroes
I'm not sure I have any. There are people I admire and people I would like to meet, but true heroes--I don't know. I think people who do jobs that nobody else wants are sort of quietly heroic. I think folks who have jobs that put them in danger are sort of heroic, but maybe they're just adrenaline junkies.
About me: Teacher (Go Beavers!) turned pastry chef. Hopelessly in love with my husband. Displaced North Carolinian who'd love to go back. Even so, I'm excited to be a part of The Ravenous Pig family in WP, FL.
How I made my profile: I used Dave & Jay's amazing myspace editor.
Who I'd like to meet: Thomas Keller, Anthony Bourdain, James Woods, Samuel L. Jackson, other people who appreciate the power of punctuation (although I might not exactly be following all the rules, myself, right now), smart yet unpretentious folks, folks who like wine but don't talk about "the nose," folks who close their eyes and moan when they eat great food, people who are funny but not mean (those people on Friends were all horrid to each other)
