some of your questions answered

Hello everyone. I've dutifully responded to (most) of your queries.

What is a food you ate all the time as a kid, but which now disgusts you?
apple sauce. gross!

A quirk of fate leaves you in each of the following cities for long enough to have only one meal. What/where do you eat? Boston, Cambridge, New York, LA.
Instead of picking restaurants in Boston and Cambridge, I'm just going to name my two favorite restaurants in Somerville, which are Dali and Evoo. I'd have as many different tapas as I can fit in my mouth at Dali, and down the road I'd have the vegetarian (actually pescatarian) tasting menu at Evoo (which takes 4 hours to eat and is one delight after another). In New York I'd have pizza at Grimaldi's in Brooklyn, and I don't know LA so I would trust SC to take me somewhere nice.


What was the most satisfying meal you ever prepared for yourself and ate while totally drunk?
Foodassociate Feldman and I made a bunch of different lasagnas when we were hautbois together, and the vegetarian option I made myself was quite satisfying, and certainly prepared and consumed while totally drunk. A less ambitious effort would be the meal of exactly one half of a bag of cheddar cheese goldfish and one revive-style vitaminwater I had after cocktails last week.

If you had to have one of the FoodFriends design your diet for a week, whom would you select?
Strachan

What are the shows you watch the most on Food Network? What are your thoughts on: Rachael Rae, Alton Brown, Nigella Lawson?
Everyday Italian, Boy Meets Grill, Barefoot Contessa, Paula Dean, and any food competition shows that don't involve pastries or gingerbread houses or sugar sculpting. I have a lot of opinions regarding the varying merits of all the Food Network stars if anyone is interested in talking shop, and I have nothing but fury and disgust for Rachael Ray. Minicheeseburger salad?! Come on!

What food staple would it be most difficult for you remove from your diet?
Cheese

Also, do you prefer plastic wrap or aluminum foil?
Foil

I have a teleporter, and can send you anywhere in the world for dinner. Where will you go, what will you have?
My backyard in Va, and I would have crabs steamed with Old Bay and then picked apart and eaten or picked apart and made into crab cakes and also the Pad-fam's secret recipe she crab soup. This is delicious.

What is your relationship to caffeine?
debilitating addiction

Based on what you've read of the diets of each food reporter, which food reporter would you eat?
It mostly has to do with who could most conceivably be considered free-range, so despite a lack of meatiness I suppose it would have to be Strachan. If I threw these cares aside and just wanted to indulge, it would certainly be Zachkay.

Is there any food you are embarrassed about how much you like it?
pepper-jack cheese or scrambled eggs. pepper-jack cheese on scrambled eggs.

What was your favorite meal in the Harvard dining halls? How much would you pay to eat this meal tonight? If this meal were available in Staten Island, would you be willing to travel there to eat it?
Probably their tomato quiche or onion-mushroom frittata. Maybe the polenta-vegetable thing or the lentil chili. I would pay exactly three dollars, and no, I wouldn't. Perhaps this opinion will change when I'm no longer faced with the terrifying reality of HUDS every day of my life.