Irina Kendall
Website: http://www.www.spectacularlynormal.com
Hometown: Brooklyn
Want to Learn How: Friendship, Baking, Networking, Fun
Occupation: Cake Designer
Schools: Brooklyn Tech, Sarah Lawrence College
Major: Child Psych, Creative Writing, Literature
Degree(s): BA
Cooker or Caker: Caker
Bake/Cook Frequency: 1-5 times a week
Baking/Cooking Training: French Culinary Institute
Favorite Food: Chocolate Souffle, Butternut Squash, Plantains, Fried Catfish, Okra
Favorite Food Moment: The first time my daughter tasted candy.
Favorite Cooking Word: Fold.
Favoriate Restaurant: Bar BQ in Brooklyn, La Hacienda in Marietta, Tsampa in NYC
In My Town Try: So many things.
Interests: Food and more food.
Books: The Master and Margarita, Ahab's Wife, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Living Dead Girl, Dead Souls, Signal and Noise, In the Heart of the Country (almost anything Coetzee before Boyhood), Anna Karenina, Schooling, Geek Love, Lucky Jim
Music: Carla Bruni, Emiliana Torrini, Madeleine Peyroux, Placebo, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Neutral Milk Hotel, Modest Mouse, Sam Phillips, The Shins, The Magnetic Fields, Hot Hot Heat, Mercury Rev, Black Star, Ella Fitzgerald, Sparkle Horse, Julie London, Iron and Wine, Yann Tiersen
TV/Movies: My Fair Lady, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Roman Holiday, Fifth Element, Moulin Rouge
Travel: Russia, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Tobago, Italy, Austria, France, England, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany
