Name: Johanna Bauman
Occupation: Image Librarian and Landscape Historian
Borough: Brooklyn
Relationship status: Married
What did you eat today?
A large piece of home-made chocolate beet cake for breakfast, a container of yoghurt, a frozen burrito, and an oatmeal cookie for lunch, and a small bag of chips and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for dinner. (Not a proud day for someone who usually tries to eat healthier. Last night I did have a delicious and healthy dinner at the Candle Café, which consisted of an avocado salad with Seitan and cashew-crusted tofu served over greens with a butternut squash sauce.)
What do you never eat?
Beef, Pork, Chicken, Venison, Rabbit, Lamb (thought it always smells delicious), and Honey Buns you find in delis (the kind wrapped in plastic).
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
Beets or turnips from the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture group), eggs, cheese, and milk.
What is your favorite kitchen item?
My large eight-cup pyrex measuring cup that doubles as a mixing bowl. [We used to have one of these, but ours was made of plastic. I left it in the sink one morning where I let our drippy sink perform Chinese water torture on the overflowing measuring cup. When I came home that night, the plastic bowl had all of these stretch marks and hairline fractures in it. I promised La Doug I would get him a new one, but I never did. Actually, I owe him a lot of kitchen items -- I busted the La Brabantia garbage bin, a glass, and most recently, the top to the little salt cellar. I try to make up for it by feeding him often. But I think I better start the replacement campaign. --Ed.]
Where do you eat out most frequently?
Amorina on Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights because it's right across the street, and they make a mean pizza and tasty salads. Mostly I've been cooking at home a lot. In Charlottesville, VA, where I lived before moving to New York almost five years ago, I used to be addicted to a greasy spoon Mexican
restaurant called Guadalajara where I would always get the vegetarian special, I think it was #6. Anyway, it came with a chile relleno, cheese enchilada, and a tostaguac served with greasy rice and beans. The best thing was that the waiter would always say "hot plate" when he brought you the food. And you always ended up with a major food coma when the meal was over. I would eat there once or twice a week. I've never really developed the same type of addiction to a particular restaurant since.
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
Käse Spätzle, served with a beet salad, and some kind of greens sautéed in garlic and olive oil. Oh yeah, and probably a nice cut of lamb.
get article was def a big help in my research of this topic
Dear Ms. Bauman,
I just tried to register for your History of landscape Design at BBG. they said they canceled the class because there were too few registrants. Hard to understand, given that the classes were to be held at various gardens, not at BBG. they wouldn't need classroom space, guards at night, etc. But I tried to offer a class in japanese garden design once, and since there were four, not five people signing up, they cancelled. Oh well. What I wanted to say is I would pay you directly if you still wanted to do the class, same fee the Garden charges members. I'd like to meet you, in any case, and pick your brain. If you don't want to do the class for a solo student, perhaps we could meet someday at the BBG.