ABOUT THIS COOK:

Enthusiastic home cook.

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  Frog's Legs (Adventure is not my middle name.)

• What do you cook when home alone?
  tuna salad sandwiches with lots of bread and butter pickles, no one else in house likes pickles.

• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  My medium-sized flame-colored Le Creuset stew pot. A cliche, but soo many uses and so pretty. That and a very dented, tin tea strainer that was my grandmother's. It is probably poisoning me when I use it, but I love it.

• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  10