ABOUT THIS COOK:

"Use your head and follow your heart;" that's how I think about my private psychotherapy practice, which combines western techniques with yoga's wisdom. I try to keep them both in mind when I eat and when I cook, too.

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  Dinner prepared by my two children, when they were very young and trying hard to please me, I thought I might die trying.

• What do you cook when home alone?
  vegetables

• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  Cuisinart covered roaster.

• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  6