qui Profile

Hometown: Gainesville, FL

Here For: Great taste, Fast, Easy, recipes.

Want to Learn How: Looking for new ideas to revamp old recipes.

Heard about BakeSpace From: Taste of Home Chat board

Occupation: Retired from advertising

Major: Music - Art

Degree(s):

Cooker or Caker: Both

Bake/Cook Frequency: Every day

Baking/Cooking Training: Osmosis - with a few classes thrown in...

Favorite Food: Dark Chocolate, Crab Cakes, Finger Foods

Favorite Food Moment: Hearing "More, please... can I have the recipe?"

Favorite Cooking Word: Saute...Least favorite is gelatin.

Favoriate Restaurant: Depends on where I am...

Favorite Chef:

Interests: People, reading, travel, art, music, cooking, whatever strikes my fanny (ooops..fancy?) I sometimes have an acerbic sense of humor. I prefer to keep in touch by phone, but I love to receive letters...I don't like additives in my food, but I'm not above using a box to bake...I don't use boxes to cook...ever...does that make me "cakist"?... I like people, as a rule, although some should be slathered in marinade and roasted.

Books: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi - or anything else that's available...including a dictionary...

Music: All of it

TV/Movies: Cops, Food, History

Travel: 32 States, Mexico, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, ++

Clubs: PPIR, American Legion