Name: Cathy Erway
Occupation: Copy Editor, occasional freelance writer
Borough: Brooklyn
Relationship status: In a relationship
What did you eat today?
Breakfast: instant oatmeal and a clementine. Lunch: tuna salad with diced red pepper and shredded carrot on multigrain toast and a romaine salad with balsamic vinaigrette. Then some yogurt. Dinner: my friend Lindsay made some angel hair with pesto, vegetarian chili and some sides like green beans and kale for a bunch of people at her place. I should explain that I recently moved apartments and my gas stove doesn’t work yet.
What do you never eat?
I don’t think I’d favor well with Stilton cheese. I recently tried to swallow a bit of goat cheese again and sort of gagged—it’s like my Achilles heel. Other than that, commonly domesticated animals and bushmeat.
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
Decaying herbs, leftovers, eggs, milk, carrots.
What is your favorite kitchen item?
I just got a red Le Creuset dutch oven as a birthday gift and it may just be my favorite item period. [Me too! Me too! --Ed.] Definitely trumps the silicone muffin pan I’ve been toying with.
Where do you eat out most frequently?
Well, that’s a funny question. I stopped eating out (albeit not when traveling out of the state of New York) in August of this year. So I would have to say at airports (not that I’m a jet-setter).
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
Mom’s soy sauce chicken stew with lots of hard boiled eggs in it, black mushroom caps, chicken falling off the bone, rice wine, scallions, and a five-spice packet immersed in it, stewed forever, and served with rice. Then to be fair, my dad’s apple pie.
Cathy is Not Eating Out in New York, which can't be easy without gas.
Hotness! I put a Le Creuset dutch oven on my wish list this year. Doubt anyone picked it up for me... heh. And, yum, clementines!
Oh. I want me a Dutch oven, too. If I had one, maybe I'd cook more at home, too, like Carrie does. Thanks for interviewing her, Ganda!
I'd love to try that soy sauce chicken stew. Is there a recipe anywhere?
So would I--will try to post a recipe this winter on NEOINY, after New Year...thanks!
What's the first thing you're going to cook when your gas stove gets fired up Cathy?