dea katel
Hometown: Brentwood, CA and Forest Hills, Qns
Want to Learn How: I have amazing friends and couldn't ask for more. I have recently found in myself a love of cooking and entertaining others so the idea of building on this and exchanging recipes interests me :)
Schools: The Kew Forest School, SUNY at Stony Brook
Major: Philosophy
Degree(s): BA
Cooker or Caker: Both
Bake/Cook Frequency: Only on weekends
Favorite Food: Ethiopian, thai,sushi...also have a weekness for moroccan
Favorite Food Moment: Cooking with friends while drinking a crisp glass of white wine.
Favorite Cooking Word: Succulent
Favoriate Restaurant: Cube 63, Queen of Sheba, Spice Market, Pylos, Five Ninth, Counter
In My Town Try: It is NYC... sky is the limit! Avoid commercial places
Interests: The dance of tastebuds
Languages: English, Russian, Georgian
Books: Cat's Cradle, Point Counterpoint, White Light, Being & Nothingness, 1984, Metamorphosis, On the Road, Hero With A Thousand Faces, Notes From the Underground, Lucky Wander Boy, Leaves of Grass, Doors of Perception, Fountainhead
Music: Beck, Suzanne Vega, Lamb, Le Tigre, The Hong Kong, Goldfrapp, Talvin Singh, Chemical Brothers, The Police, Zero7, Aphex Twin, Faithless, Cake, Tribe Called Quest, Peggy Lee, AK1200, Deee-Lite, Prince, Diamond Nights, Wolfmother, Belle and Sebastian, Nouvelle Vague, Regina Spektor, Gorillaz, Billie Holiday, Orbital, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Sneaker Pimps, Blondie, The Clash, Bjork, Layo&Bushwaka, James Brown, The Libertines, Brazilian Girls, Kasabian, Kings of Leon, Louis XVI, Real Live Show... always, always MORE
TV/Movies: MOVIES: Revolver, L'ultimo bacio... TELEVISION: Arrested Development (network BASTARDS!), Kids in the Hall, Coupling (BBC), Lost, The Daily Show, Project Runway, Six Degrees, random documentaries...hmm...Thundercats, Fraggle Rock, Shattered Glass, Run Lola Run, Amelie, Office Space, Fight Club, Pi, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Big Kahuna, Roger Dodger, The Graduate, Willy Wonka, Waking Life, City of God, Lost in Translation, The Believer, Derrida, Vertigo, I <3 Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine..., Crash, Requiem for a Dream, Garden State, Swingers, Lock Stock, Closer, all things Kevin Smith or 80's circa brat pack,
