xtine

about me

I'm originally from Atlanta, GA, but I now live in Brooklyn, NY with my husband, 2 cats & 1 dog. That's me with my husband Steve in the photo above. I'm a film and video editor, but cooking is my main hobby - if you can call something you do multiple times a day a hobby.
I enjoy all types of food, from molecular gastronomy to 70s suburban Mom type stuff. Lets just say that I call on Julia & Escoffier about as often as I do Campbell's cream of mushroom, and I'm comfortable with that.
I love foods from all nations/cultures, and I am fortunate enough to live in NYC so I can go to restaurants which serve food from pretty much anywhere on the globe. Because of this most of my recipes tend to be in the Western European/American food tradition - I find it easier to pay the experts for more complicated delicacies such as Dosai, Pho & Injera. I really enjoy having so many great food resources available to me here in NYC. One of my favorite stores is Kalustyan's http://www.kalustyans.com/
they have every spice, bean, & grain in the world. If there's something you can't find, look on their website. I bet they'll have it and they can ship it to you!
Many of my recipes are Southern, because that's the food I grew up on. I hope the recipes I have posted will be useful to folks out in the 'zaar universe!

Favorite Foods:

So many things. Any kind of chicken, dosas, salads, chili, indo-chinese, mexican food......

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