You Are What You Eat, Martin Gelin

Name: Martin Gelin

Occupation: Journalist

Borough: Brooklyn

Relationship status: Messy

What did you eat today? breakfast: some fruit and lots of coffee. lunch: bahn mi-sandwich in Chinatown dinner: pizza with italian sausage from Franny's + had some chocolate and manchego cheese later on.

What do you never eat?

Stupid fusion food

Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:

Grey Poupon, manchego cheese, perhaps a bottle of sancerre and sadly not much else...

What is your favorite kitchen item?

Take out menus from Amorina and Franny's

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Frankie's Spuntino (for the pork chop and the jersualem artichokes) and Il Buco (for everything). [Wow, somebody likes Italian food. --Ed.]
Oh, and Dumpling House at Eldridge street whenever I'm in the neighborhood.

World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?

There's an amazing, old Italian guy called Vincent who runs a place called Chez Vincent in Paris, and I would let him throw a huge dinner party for me and all my friends. He's always singing along to the opera and drinking lots of wine while he's cooking. If he wouldn't take reservations that evening, I guess I'd go for my mom's Swedish Vasterbotten cheese pie.

Speak Swedish? Check out saffransrok, Martin's food blog.