Kat Bartlett
Want to Learn How: new ingredients, everything from scratch, more about baking
Occupation: bartender
Industry: Food & Beverages
Cooker or Caker: Cooker
Bake/Cook Frequency: 1-5 times a week
Baking/Cooking Training: mom, books, television
Favorite Food: seafood, anything seasonal, international, or fusion, new american cuisine, brunch, steak tartare, oysters on the half shell, soup, anything with sriracha, cheese
Favorite Food Moment: popping pomegranate seeds in my mouth, discovering wasabi tobiko, ordering room service from gordon ramsay, the debut of pumpkin and spices when autumn hits, perfecting bacon ice cream, grand gourmet, every episode of no reservations
Favorite Cooking Word: confit, tapenade, demi-glace, bisque
Favoriate Restaurant: employees only (west village), sojourn (upper east side), shade (west village), dessert truck (new york city), barcelona (west hartford, ct), california rollin' (rochester, ny)
Favorite Chef: hubert keller, eric ripert, tom colicchio, cat cora, wylie dufresne, john besh, rocco dispirito, rick bayless
In My Town Try: gordon ramsay @ the london (midtown west), canyon road (upper east side), dinosaur bbq (harlem), 44 1/2 (hell's kitchen), s'mac (east village), barrio chino (lower east side), lea (midtown east), compass (upper west side)
Interests: cocktails, acting, singing, reading, writing, dancing, restaurants, crossword puzzles, upper east side, board games, twitter, champagne, street vendors, outdoor markets, spas, flowers, disney world, nonfiction, green, tea sets, red wine, seasonal things, infomercial products
Books: kitchen confidential (anthony bourdain), freakonomics (levitt/dubner), requiem for a dream (hubert selby jr.), postsecret (frank warren)
Music: adele, amos lee, the beatles, citizen cope, damien rice, dispatch, fiona apple, foo fighters, incubus, india arie, jason mraz, jewel, john legend, lauryn hill, the lonely island, michael jackson, missy elliott, mos def, third eye blind, stevie wonder
TV/Movies: TV: 30 rock, desperate housewives, house m.d., the office, psych, saturday night live, so you think you can dance, top chef, weeds
MOVIES: almost famous, clueless, the crucible, dick, the first wives club, forrest gump, hot rod, jurassic park, meet the robinsons, pleasantville, requiem for a dream, singin' in the rain, that thing you do, the usual suspects, you've got mail
Travel: united states, canada, mexico, italy
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