Category: You Are What You Eat

Name: Allan Roth

Occupation: Political Science Graduate Student

Borough: Manhattan

Relationship status: Single

What did you eat today?

Turkey, egg, and cheese breakfast wrap.

What do you never eat?

The kimchi my roommate brings home.

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

Flour, butter, eggs, sage.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

Chef’s knife.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Sitting? Deluxe. Standing? Roti Roll Bombay Frankie.

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

Boiled crawfish. Pecan pie. Abita Amber.

Visit Allan's blog at rattlemycage.wordpress.com.

Name: Molly Osmond

Occupation: Merchandise Analyst at a women’s sportswear company

Borough: Brooklyn

Relationship status: Married

What did you eat today?

Cappuccino, cinnamon raisin bagel toasted with butter, tuna salad on wheat bread, leftover grilled pizza with sweet sausage and ricotta (a lazy, no cooking day!)

What do you never eat?

Peanut butter, anything with coconut milk, whipped cream, marshmallows, fast food, potato chips

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

mustard, expired yogurt, fizzy water, champagne, assorted jams, baby carrots

What is your favorite kitchen item?

8” Wusthof chef’s knife, by far! Microplane zester is a close second, followed by my 4 qt All-Clad saucepan

Where do you eat out most frequently?

‘ino, on Bedford Street, Bocca Lupo, in Cobble Hill, Lunetta, on Smith Street, Blue Ribbon (all their locations)

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

Pizza! Always pizza. Preferably from Otto, with a fantastic bottle of red alongside.

Molly blogs at mk-cadeaux.com.

Name: Lucas Benjaminh Krech

Occupation: Lighting Designer

Borough: Brooklyn

Relationship status:In a Relationship

What did you eat today?

Shade Grown Organic Honduran Coffee, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, yogurt and raisins for breakfast. Falafel for lunch. Rice and cheese with hot sauce for dinner. I just got back into town from working in California for two weeks and the food shopping has been slight.

What do you never eat?

Animals.

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

Soy Milk (For Coffee). To be perfectly honest, it's coffee more than food per se that I find necessary. When I travel for work I often bring my small stovetop espresso or Vietnamese coffee maker with me depending upon what the lodging situation is. Those hotel coffee makers are really only good for heating up water to make Vietnamese style coffee.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

My large stove top espresso maker.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Mud

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

A steak from Peter Luger. If the world is ending, no need to keep up the vegetarianism.

Name: Jeremy Parzen

Occupation: writer, translator, musician

Borough: Manhattan

Relationship status: single

What did you eat today?

Orecchiette with tomato and tuna sauce

What do you never eat?

Boiled lobster that needs to be shelled.

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

Chablis

What is your favorite kitchen item?

Vegetable mill

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Cup and Saucer

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

Zampone and lentils paired with Lambrusco

Visit Jeremy's blog, Do Bianchi.

Name: Jeremy Schwartz

Occupation: Lawyer

Borough: Brooklyn

Relationship status: single

What did you eat today?

cantaloupe, honeydew, strawberries, croissant, butter

What do you never eat?

the vegetarian option

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

a pint of spoiled milk

What is your favorite kitchen item?

peeler

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Vinnie’s Pizza (Bedford between N. 8 and N. 9)

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

The scallops followed by the monkfish at Le Bernardin.

Name: Jonathan Manto

Occupation: student

Borough: Manhattan

Relationship status: married

What did you eat today?

It’s 6:46 am and I’ve just started my day with my usual: a bowl of my oatmeal, lentil, oat bran, flax meal concoction – I whip up a large batch every two weeks or so. [Lentil?! --Ed.]

What do you never eat?

Hot dogs -- they disgust me.

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

Milk -- it does the body good.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

My milkshake machine – of course.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

The Deluxe – it’s close by and serves up a decent breakfast, my favorite meal of the day. [With lentil?! --Ed.]

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

I’m not much of a meat eater, but I’d have to say, in this case, a really good steak.

Name: Marina Zurkow

Occupation: artist / animator

Borough: Brooklyn

Relationship status: would you like to have dinner?

What did you eat today?

OG yoghurt and maple almond granola
An apple turnover from the farmer’s market
Risotto with mushrooms and asparagus
Steamed spinach with butter and salt

What do you never eat?

Cow’s tongue. Otherwise, it’s open season.

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

red and white miso, grainy Dijon, cold brewed coffee, coconut water, prosecco, unsalted organic butter, and lemons.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

My good sharpened knife and a microplane.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

I cook often, and I have no regular joints, but I love Minca on 5th street and B (homemade ramen), Zabb Café (Issan Thai) on 13th street and 2nd; Diner, Wild Ginger and Oasis in Williamsburg, and would always opt for Raoul’s on Prince Street. I’d be a regular at Le Bernardin if I could…

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

Tomorrow- not next week:
Cedar scented sake with
Uni, shiso, hamachi, mirugai, + ika
then
A perfectly charcoal broiled hangar steak, rare inside
Wild arugula with radishes and toasted pumpkin seeds in hazelnut lemon vinaigrette
Broiled string beans in olive oil with grey salt
With a bottle of Cortes de Nuits
then
Flourless chocolate cake with vanilla hazelnut homemade ice cream
And afterwards, some Calvados, dark chocolate, and candied lemon rind.
(if the world doesn’t end tomorrow, I’ll skip dessert)

Name: Katherine Tasheff

Occupation: Web content person, wanna-be photographer

Borough: Park Slope Brooklyn

Relationship status: Singleton

What did you eat today?

Ronnybrook Mango drinkable yogurt, GoLean crunch, coffee with milk and brown sugar.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich - Skippy Super Chunk and Phillips Farms’ Strawberry-Rhubarb spread.

Blue corn tortilla chips and fresh tomato salsa from the 5th avenue farmers market.

Buttermilk pancakes with fresh peach compote. (Yes, for dinner. When the going gets tough, the tough eat breakfast for dinner.)

What do you never eat?

Any obvious animal parts. Sweetbreads and brains scare me (even after Comfort Me with Apples, I can’t do brains). Oh, and overcooked eggplant gives me the creeps.

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

organic milk, lemons and limes, beer (usually Stella), leftover pasta of some variety, at least one unfinished drinkable yogurt. Something that’s gone fuzzy in the vegetable drawer.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

My stovetop espresso coffee pot. Although I really need a new one.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Hmmm. I’m realizing that I’ve been getting into cooking at home more than going out (bought a grill this summer). But, my friend Lisa and I have a semi-monthly tradition of Monday Night Margaritas at El Centro; I have a soft spot for the burgers at Johnny Mack’s; You can’t exactly call it eating out, but Russo’s in my neighborhood has great fresh pasta, sauce, and prepared Italian food -- and I’m a complete fool for Italian food. (Plus, they have Ciao Bella gelato and sorbetto. Mmmmm.)

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

Start with aged gouda, sharp Vermont cheddar, gruyere, some salami and bresaola, olives and peppadews – serve with baguette toasts, and a nice appetizer-y wine. (I’ll ask my friend Kerry for a recommendation.) Then, for the main event -- Chicken and Noodles the way my mom makes it – it’s like a thick chicken and pasta stew with lots of cracked pepper. A giant green salad with tomatoes, roasted beets, herbs, and just a little bit of goat cheese. Warm and crusty sourdough bread. Multiple glasses of a big, friendly red wine (see Kerry again). And finally, after a little break, homemade vanilla ice cream with my very own chocolate-chip cookies for dessert . Or maybe my apple and cranberry pie.

And if the world is really ending the next day, I’d like to follow it up by watching a movie with my friends and family -- something like The Princess Bride.

Name: Deb Perelman

Occupation: Reporter

Borough: Manhattan

Relationship status: Hitched

What did you eat today?

One of my miniature bagels with a tiny bit of butter. [Your husband is a lucky, lucky man. --Ed.]A small coffee from the cart outside my office.

What do you never eat?

Fish. I thought I'd get over my aversion to it one day but I'm beginning to think it will squick me out for all eternity. Also: beets, chai, 99 percent of teas, cilantro except in rare circumstances, power/cereal/luna/anything bars and those tri-colored pastas. Wow, I better stop here or people are going to think I'm picky or something.

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

Eggs, butter, yeast, some fruit my husband has determined inedible because it has actually ripened and a few containers leftovers of an indeterminate age we're in a standoff with, waiting for last month's blog entry to throw itself out. Hasn't worked yet, but we're a hopeful bunch.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

It's like asking me to choose a favorite child! Cover your ears, okay? Mommy loves you all equally: Mandoline, digital scale, our g'normous Staub cocotte and its twin, a one-cup version that does nothing but sit there looking cute all day.

Where do you eat out most frequently? Le Singe Vert or Momoya on 7th Avenue, though lately it's been Tia Pol on 10th.

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

I want to eat at the Bread Bar at Tabla. I want one bite of every single dish on the menu, a bowl of spiced popcorn, two pomegranate gimlets and a vanilla bean kulfi pop. Would it be great to leave this world buzzing with inspiration? Or at least gin?

Why not both? Visit superstar Deb at her incredible, edible website, Smitten Kitchen.

Name: Kurt Wolf Langer

Occupation: Activist

Borough: Brooklyn

Relationship status: None

What did you eat today?

Ham and cheese on rye, salt’n’peppa kettle chips, coffee

What do you never eat?

Eyeballs, Chinese food

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

Home made pesto

What is your favorite kitchen item? Mortar and pestle, cauldron

Where do you eat out most frequently? Jackson Heights / Woodside

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

Champagne and oysters with THC-infused lemon sauce, pumpkin soup with opium cream, warm beet and goat cheese and spinach salad with balsamic Owsley LSD dressing, prawns vindaloo with peyote masala, fruit soup with vodka, spring lamb chops with magic mushroom reduction glaze, cheese and PCP plate, crack-cocaine and cardamom dusted warm chocolate soufflé with home-made vanilla ice cream, Louis XIII cognac and a clove cigarette.