ABOUT THIS COOK:

For the past 9 years or so I've been co-writing a packaged food taste testing column for the National Post Newspaper in Toronto Canada. My writing partner & I have recently started a website for the column. Please check us out at www.shelflifetastetest.com When not working on the column I am also a designer/prop stylist for TV & web cooking shows. I'm hoping to take the public cooking plunge & submit a recipe to food52.

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  Baconaise

• What do you cook when home alone?
  pasta with peas & Parmaigiano-Reggiano

• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  my 2 Le Creuset roasting pans.

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