Name: Josh Friedland
Occupation: Director of Communications/writer/blogger
Relationship status: Married
Borough: Queens
What did you eat today?
Two slices of cinnamon/raisin swirl bread with natural peanut butter, two cups Peet’s Coffee (Maduro Blend), Liberte yogurt (awesome French Canadian brand), cup of Genmai Cha (brown rice) tea, fried pork dumplings, Peking duck, e-fu noodles with mushrooms, two Tsingtao beers.
What do you never eat?
Snails.
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
Baking soda, eggs, mayonnaise, Sriracha, fish sauce, soy sauce, anchovies, capers, half-consumed and rapidly wilting container of pre-washed salad greens, beer, unsalted butter, sparkling mineral water, dijon mustard, horseradish mustard, ketchup, preserves, partially-consumed container of organic baby food, organic milk.
What is your favorite kitchen item?
Toss up: French Press coffee maker/tongs
Where do you eat out most frequently?
Nick’s Pizza, which happens to be nearby and makes one of the best pizzas in New York City. Plus, they’re fast (pizzas are always ready in five minutes).
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
That should give me enough time to fly to Liguria and have a slice of focaccia col formaggio, a plate of insalata di mare, a bowl of trofie al pesto, and then move on to alternating cones of nocciola and stracciatella gelato until armageddon comes. Arrivederci!
Josh Friedland runs The Food Section, one of the best places on the internets for food news and views.
TFS: still just a filter blog....
I know the rice grab! I love it! I do it to my room mate, too. But he doesn't officially know I'm doing it. He just mysteriously recieves a new bag of rice every few months as my guilty conscience obliges me to repay him for the snatched fingerfuls. I must confess that I don't have any kind of time discrimination, though... as long as I've used my fingers (fear not, I clean them first) and the goods are still in the cooker, it's officially a rice grab.