You Are What You Eat, Kara Zuaro

Name: Kara Zuaro

Occupation: freelance writer and author of I Like Food, Food Tastes Good: In the kitchen with your favorite bands

Borough: Brooklyn

Relationship status: Married

What did you eat today?

For breakfast, I had some leftover grapefruit, orange, and mint salad. [Ooh, yum! --Ed.]  For lunch, I scrambled eggs with spinach, Swiss cheese, and assorted leftover vegetables - and then rolled it all up in corn tortillas.  For dinner, I tried out a few recipes from the Veganomicon cookbook - Jicama-Watercress-Avocado Salad with Spicy Citrus Vinaigrette, Messy Rice, and Chile-Cornmeal Crusted Tofu - washed down with a Dogfish Head Chicory Stout.  (I'm not vegan, but I'm pretty into this cookbook.)

What do you never eat?

I steer clear of lengua tacos.  I'll try anything once, but when I tried one of those, I just couldn't get past the texture.  I felt like I was biting my own tongue.

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

Frank's RedHot.  (Pete, my husband, puts it on the table with every meal.)

What is your favorite kitchen item?

As a lover of kitchen equipment, I really can't choose just one.  I love my monkey peeler, my Messermeister chef's knife, my electric tea kettle, my convection oven (which has a rounded back, making it big enough to fit a pizza), my tongs, my stand mixer, my fancy rice cooker, and my mini-prep food processor.  

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Zaytoon's on Smith Street

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

I'd have to go for a lobster roll at Duryea's.  It's on a pier in Montauk, where it feels like you're at the end of the world.  Plus, they have a B.Y.O.B. policy, so you could really celebrate the last sunset there.