Name: Adam Houghtaling
Occupation: Editorial Director, gourmet.com [Nice work on the relaunch! --Ed.]
Borough: Brooklyn
Relationship Status: SWM
What did you eat today?
Coffee. And a couple delicious bites from the test kitchen that I'm not really allowed to talk about. Mostly just the coffee though… but it is only 10:30 in the morning. [Lucky duck! --Ed.]
What do you never eat?
Shrimp
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
Six mustards, three beers and one bottle of prosecco.
What is your favorite kitchen item:
Hands down…the cutting board. It's understated and humble. Not irrationally needy like the knives or starved for attention like the crème brulee torch or the… uh… mango pitter.
Where do you eat out most frequently?
Mostly around my place in Fort Greene: Choice Market, Bonita, Pillow Café, Smoke Joint, Locanda, Luz, etc.
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
I would like the short ribs from Cafe Gray and a malted chocolate milkshake. And warm tortilla chips with guacamole. And also blueberry pancakes.
Is it too late to add a lobster roll…because, yes…lobster roll.
i've totally seen this guy at the pillow cafe on his computer and have a huge crush on him! and he's a food editor. so cool! are u sure he's single?
take a number. i see him in the conde cafeteria. yum.
Yes indeed, he's tall, handsome, smart, straight and single. In New York. He's like the ivory-billed woodpecker.
That's interesting because "The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker" was actually my nickname in high school. Well... one of them. I refuse to bring up the others for fear that they stick again.
gee adam, you got a huge following.... all after one day! maybe I'll hang up my knives and do what you do.
kudos my friend!
You didn't do too badly yourself, if I read the comments under your YAWYE right, Chris. Anyway, I'm happy to play Yenta.
Don't hang up your knives, good man. I have one word for you: skulk. It must work in some part because it's really the only move I've got.
I need to find myself a gay version of this guy.
Okay.... Explain this "skulk".
whoa, there's a single guy in fort greene? i thought the only ppl who live here were interracial couples with mixed babies. (and, cruelly, me.)
How did I happen upon this?
can we talk instead for a minute about the fact that he sort of has the best last name ever? if you were gonna hang out, you could say you were houghtaling it over to gimme coffee to meet adam. i mean, clearly, the coffee-only diet has done wonders for my powers of perception here.
YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!!! Alright already!!!!
What's happening in here? Besides a lot of question marks and exclamation points!?! I am curious as to how Sarah knows how I pronounce my last name. Most people don't get it right. Not that there's necessarily a wrong. Unless... Sarah... do I know you? Oh... and skulking... basically you squint a fair amount, sigh a lot, and never ever talk to strangers. And it doesn’t hurt to limit your social activities to dark movie theaters and dusty record stores.
i don't know you from adam! (okay, now i'm going to have to fire myself for even typing that, but, it was too good to resist...). but, i was an english major. i took an educated guess. (not that you'd know from my avoidance of capitalization.)
as far as skulking goes, it also helps if your idea of a good makeout album is 'Loveless'. or something similar. you can convey this silently by adopting a really killer forlorn middle-distance stare, as though somewhere beyond the rooftops/lofts/warehouses/dirty streets lies the woman that you cruelly lost during a long winter of fog and whiskey. see? simple.
I love the mention of the cutting board as a favorite kitchen item. Always so overlooked, but so necessary.
so... i got number 23, has that been called yet?
Hey Adam-Did you ever live in or around Greenville, SC?