EBeier

NYC/Ft. Worth, TX
Editor

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  Calf fries.
• What do you cook when home alone?
  Experimental things no one else would want to eat--often they seem to involve chicken livers.
• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  A heavy, peasanty tagine hauled back from Morocco--don't use it nearly enough!
• Your ideal meal:
  A tomato sandwich in high summer with mayonnaise on good white peasant bread.
• Something you'd like a chance to eat or cook:
  To eat: street food in Malaysia. To cook: octopus, but am afraid of rebellion (the octopus' and my family's).
• The number of bottles of wine you own:
  20
• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  10
• Kitchen pet peeve:
  Undersalting.
• Your favorite cookbook:
  James Beard's AMERICAN COOKERY