Name: Tanya Wenman Steel
Occupation: Editor-in-Chief, Epicurious.com
Borough: Westchester, NY [The sixth borough? --Ed.]
Relationship status: Married with identical twin boys
What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Oatmeal with raisins, sunflower seeds and cinnamon and three caffe lattes; lunch: curried chicken salad on whole wheat wrap with mixed greens; afternoon snack: Kit Kat bar; dinner: vegetable dumplings, creamed spinach, strawberries and red grapes; late-night snack: big bowl of Ben & Jerry’s peanut butter cup ice cream.
What do you never eat?
Brussels sprouts [If you ever change your mind, which I’m sure you won’t, I recommend the fried Brussels sprouts with fish sauce vinaigrette at Momofuku Ssam. --Ed.]
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
All manner of chocolates and coffees, Portuguese muffins, gallons and gallons of organic milk, plus healthy snacks for the boys like yogurt, mini carrots, sugar snap peas, strawberries and red grapes.
What is your favorite kitchen item?
Without question, tongs.
Where do you eat out most frequently?
Nha Trang in Chinatown. I love their beef pho, spring rolls, soft-shall crab, and beef rolls.
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
At home with my family, eating a spread that would include barbecued flank steak, raw sashimi-grade tuna, creamy mashed potatoes, creamy spinach, crusty sourdough, chocolate layer cake, and several bottles of Clos des Papes Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2004.
Tanya's blog is the epilog, over at the shiny and new Epicurious.
The northeast is still suffering from red tide, gandalicious, so I wonder if that is the cause of the oyster lack.
Chateauneuf-du-pape!! M'fave.