You Are What You Eat, Sasha Davies

Name: Sasha Davies

Occupation: I sling cheese at a small shop and also do sales for a specialty cheese paper company.

Borough: No borough anymore. I moved to Portland, OR two months ago.

Relationship status: Married.

What did you eat today?

Breakfast- Homemade yogurt & granola, coffee. Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich (strawberry preserves), hazelnuts, blueberries, prosciutto di parma. Dinner: egg-cheese-guacamole tostada, strawberry ice cream with blueberries.

What do you never eat?

Wet cake, oysters, cooked carrots. [There's a definite throughline there.  I don't know what it is, but it's there. --Ed.]

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

Cheese, peanut butter and butter.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

I think you mean item as in tool... I would have to say my oval French oven by Le Creuset. I use it for braising and roasting, soups, and making preserves. It is the best thing to cross my stovetop since I learned to use it.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

In NYC it was Marlow & Sons (partly b/c I worked there but also it's just so good).
Here in Portland it is this rad little taqueria called Por que no? I think I could eat there every single day.

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

Oh geez. If I had to pick right now I would want perfect bread with cultured butter, a fava bean salad with shaved pecorino and some roasted hazelnuts followed by spaetzle and pork from Tamarack Hollow Farm (best pork ever) [and available at the Union Square Greenmarket --Ed.] combined in some perfect way and then salted caramel ice cream... then there would need to be wine, espresso, and probably some cheese from a few of my favorite cheesemakers- Meadow Creek Dairy, Jasper Hill, Twig Farm [whose website has an awesome favicon, for you web nerdz --Ed.], 3 Corner Field Farm [also available at the Union Square Greenmarket, people.  --Ed.]. And I would definitely have sparkling water too.

Sasha may not physically live in New York anymore, but the fact that she helped put together the Unfancy Food Show for us makes her a New Yorker in my eyes.  She and her husband are also the wizards behind Cheese by Hand, an incredible multimedia documentary about artisanal cheesemaking in America.