Keira Dazi
Here For: Learning how to cook a decent meal??
Want to Learn How: (see above)
Heard about BakeSpace From: The Creator! Babs! (met at 2010 CES -she was very sweet!!)
Occupation: PR, and an Actress. (yes, I'm still from Hollywod folks!)
Industry: Marketing
Schools: UC Berkeley, Santa Monica, Chapman U, AIDA, Lee Strasberg's...You name it, I probably flashed my face there at one point.
Major: International Relations
Cooker or Caker: Cooker
Bake/Cook Frequency: Never
Baking/Cooking Training: None really. I just sneek in tips from watching others occasionally.
Favorite Food: Would it be a sin to say rice and chili beans? Ok fine! Italian and Cajun food. (I also love Filipino food)
Favorite Food Moment: When I tried Jonny's bread salad....like woah.
Favorite Cooking Word: Spatchcock.
Favoriate Restaurant: I have a few that are dear to me, but I have yet to have a favourite.
Favorite Chef: Chef Hawken. ;)
In My Town Try: The Jazz Kitchen for the spinach pasta jambalaya!!!!
Interests: I am interested in that which is of interest to those that are interesting.
Languages: Fluent in English (duh), and Spanish. Conversational in French, Italian, and Tagalog.
Books: "The book of Laughter and Forgetting"-Milan Kundera. Peace is Every Step" - Thich Nhat Hanh. "The Unbearable lightness of being" - Milan Kundera. "The Four Agreements" - Don Miguel Ruiz. "An Elegant Universe" - Brian Greene. "The Myth of Sysufus" - Albeert Camus. "The Tao of Physics" - Fritjof Capra . "The Universe in a Single Atom" - Dalai Lama. "The Myth of Sysufus. "The Power of Now" -Eckhart Tolle. "Night" - Elie Weisel (autographed!! thanks Joe!). "The missing piece" - Shel Silverstein. Plays by Aurther Miller and Tenessee Williams, "Way of the peaceful warrior" - Dan Millman. "Angels and Demons" - Dan Brown. "Welcome to the Monkey House" - Kurt Vonnegut. "A Clockwork Orange" - Anthony Burgess. "Les Jeux de lesprit" - Pierre Boulle. "the Diary of Anne Frank" - Anne Frank. "Animal Farm" - George Orwell. History books, Science and Physics, Biographies...Mystery Novels. Authors: Robert Kiosaki, Dale Carnegie and even V.C. Andrews...
Music: RADIOHEAD, Thom Yorke, Camera Obscura, Pedro the Lion, Band of Horses, Arcade Fire, The Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Simon & Garfunkel, Beck, The Beatles, Astral Travel, Grandaddy, Coldplay, Bon Iver, Azure Ray, Dan Deacon, Ryan Adams, Regina Spektor, Lindsey Buckingham, Broken Social Scene, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Daft Punk, Feist, Yael Naim, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Portishead, Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie, A Fine Frenzy, The Postal Service, Gorillaz, grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, Augustana, The Shins, Fiona Apple, Vienna Teng, Anna Nalick, Paolo Nutini, William Fitzsimmons, Aidan Hawken, Corrine Bailey Rae, R.E.M., Damien Rice, I'm From Barcelona, Lykke Li, Menomena, Crystal Castles, Dirty Vegas, Metric, Her Space Holiday, Shiny Toy Guns, Soulwax, Justice, Felix Da Housecat, Chemical Brothers, Royksopp, Peter Bjorn & John, Belle & Sebastian, Nora Jones, James Blunt, The Polyphonic Spree, Dave Mathew's Band, KT Tunstall, The Ramones, Adolescents, John Legend, Dead Kennedys, Tiny Dancers, The Adicts, Sex Pistols, The Fray, The Doors, Sean Lennon, Floggin Molly, X-ray specs, Transister, Depeche Mode, The Killers, Remy Zero, Sarah Brightman, Kanye West, Lauren Hill, Jay-Z, Avenged 7fold, Tori Amos, White stripes, Rolling Stones, Goldfinger, Misfits, Danzig, the Toydolls, No Doubt, the Casualties, Frou Frou, Zero7, the Cure, the Smiths, Morrisey, Blondie, System of the down, Iron and wine, Nirvana, the Clash, Rancid, Ace of Base, Harry Nilson, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Bobby Darran, Billie Holiday, anything 40's (like big band music and old blues songs)
TV/Movies: American Beauty, Under the Tuscan Sun, 500 days of Summer, Across the Universe, Once, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Fight Club, American Psycho, Requiem for a Dream, Nausicaa, Atonement, La Vie en Rose, Brick, Brazil, The Quiet Earth, Solaris, Malena, Chocolat, Motorcycle diaries, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Castle in the Sky, Princess Bride, Wall-E, Dumb And Dumber, Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy, Dark Knight, The Graduate, Borat, We don't live here anymore, The Fountain, Babel, the last kiss, Constant Gardner, City of God, 21 Grams, Amores Peros, Garden State, Closer, V for Vendetta (just about any Natalie Portman movie), Se7en, Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, The Dreamers, Braveheart, Back to the Future 1-3, Amelie, Beyond the sea, Walk the line, Munich, Memoirs of a Geisha, Nightmare before Christmas, the Human stain, Edward Scissor hands (practically any Tim Burton film), Modern Times, City Lights, A woman in Paris (anything Chaplin), Capote, Dirty Pretty Things, Dangerous Liasons, Girl Interupted, Beyond Borders, Scarface, Almost Famous, Brokeback Mountain, the Devils Advocate, Nacho Libre, The Breakup, The Devil Wears Prada, Troy, Casino, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Legally Blonde, Little Nemo - Adventure's in Slumberland, Clueless, Mean Girls, Crash, A walk to remember, the Notebook, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday (Just about any Audrey Hepburn Movie), James Bond Movies, Anything Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Temple movies :p, Classic films from the 30's and 40's, Sci-fi, Horror, Foreign, Martial Arts and war movies... gosh darn.. I like so many.. the list is endless
Travel: Have driven from LA to NYC. And all over the entire US, as well as the Golden Coast up to Canada. I have also been to Mexico, and quite a few other Countries...
Clubs: Literature Clubs trump Night Clubs.
I may not be ..
Tomato pasta!
Basic Cooking..
