Mari Suzuki
Website: http://kitchenwizard.wordpress.com
Here For: Food and making friends. Also to share recipes and tips.
Want to Learn How: Recipes from many different countries. I'm very passionate about variety and many different flavor and ingredients. (some calls it obsession.)
Cooker or Caker: Cooker
Bake/Cook Frequency: Every day
Baking/Cooking Training: My grandma, aunts who taught cooking,
TV cooking shows (both in Japan and US), Home Chef cooking school. I consider myself a self-taught cook.
Favorite Food: Too many to list. It would be much faster to list what I don't like.
Favorite Food Moment: Eating something great at a restaurant or abroad, and recreating it (making something similar) at home.
Favorite Cooking Word: Variety, flavor, efficiency, optimizing, ethnic, freshness, healthy, in season, fun
Favoriate Restaurant: Too many to list.
Favorite Chef: Lidia Bastianich, Jacques Pepin, Mario Batali, All Iron Chefs from the original Japanese version, Hiro Sone, Nobu Matsuhisa
In My Town Try: Dopo, Adesso, Sea Salt, Cactus, The Slanted Door, Angel Fish, Burma Superstar.. Gosh, too many to list here as well.