You Are What You Eat, Charlotte Druckman

Name: Charlotte Druckman

Occupation: Freelance journalist

Borough: Manhattan

Relationship status: free as a bird

What did you eat today?

Sesame-banana cake from Birdbath bakery; Greek yogurt with honey from Honey Gardens Apiaries in Vermont (so very good) and blueberry granola; two glasses of rosé at Village; two crawfish dumplings, edamame & jicama salad, gai lan, miso-glazed salmon over mesclun and one diet Boylan’s rootbeer at Mooncake Foods; half of a coconut cookie from Birdbath.

What do you never eat?

pecans, walnuts and EYEBALLS

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

Homemade Greek yogurt and fig confiture from The Yogurt Place II; Ronnybrook Farms yogurt (vanilla and/or maple vanilla); a hunk of Ewephoria and whatever other cheese struck my fancy at Murray’s; an assortment of mustards; a bottle of prosecco, champers and/or rosé; diet peach Snapple; lemons; garlic; unsalted French butter; white miso paste; mango salsa from Citarella; Moroccan olives; soy sauce; ketchup; brownies and fat-free Reddi Wip

What is your favorite kitchen item?

wooden spoon

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Blue Ribbon Bakery, City Bakery, Momofuku Ssam, Mooncake Foods, Peasant, Supper, Village

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

A NYC restaurant crawl accompanied by bubbly and friends with forks at every turn:

Gusto’s octopus (and, if it’s tomato season, the panzanella salad)

Bavette cacio & pepe at Lupa

Momofuku Ssam pork buns, two please + a few glasses of The Black Chook

Bone Marrow at Blue Ribbon Bakery

Bacon-cheeseburger with sauteed onions, rare & cottage fries, well done + a bullshot at J.G. Melon

Joel Robuchon’s beef-and-foie-gras sliders

Uni sushi & toro sashimi at Sushi Yasuda

BOOT & RALLY

[HA! --Ed.]

A flight of desserts:

Balthazar’s tarte tatin

Trio of bread pudding:

- Peasant’s white-chocolate-and-fig bread pudding

- Blue Ribbon Bakery’s chocolate chip bread pudding

- Café Colonial’s chocolate croissant bread pudding

Mrs. Grossinger’s coffee ice cream & praline cake

And, if at all possible, a trough of rice pudding from La Régalade in Paris

(Do you think if I procured a palmier from Carette along with the pudding and saved it until the next morning, right before the execution, that’d be ok? Or, would that count as breakfast, ergo, another meal?)

[It's your fantasy. Besides, a palmier hardly counts as a meal. --Ed.]