Samantha
Website: http://www.twitter.com/rapidreader
Here For: recipes, and a wonderful place to organize them in case I lose my recipe cards.
Want to Learn How: substitutions. it's important with my family to eat as healthy as possible so substituting not just ingredients but recipes for healthier ones is something I would like to start doing
Occupation: student/writer
Major: General Educations/Linguistics
Cooker or Caker: Caker
Bake/Cook Frequency: 1-5 times a week
Baking/Cooking Training: fending for myself from a young age! my mother definitely wasn't one of those "supervise you in the kitchen" mothers.
Favorite Food: finger foods! if I don't have to use silverware, I'm in love.
Favorite Food Moment: My cousin and I were three or four, our parents left us alone and we had a mashed potatoes and peas food fight. Wiping that stuff out of grout with baby wipes was not fun.
Favorite Cooking Word: "Well, that's sexy."
Favoriate Restaurant: Ristorante Umbria on 2nd Street in San Francisco. Bucca Di Peppo on Howard Streetin San Francisco. Chevys--if anyone knows what that corn mush is and can tell me I would love you forever.
Favorite Chef: Alton Brown, technically not a chef (I don't think) but I love his scientific approach to cooking.
In My Town Try: Uhm, nothing. It's the wasteland of cooking. No, seriously. Don't eat here.
Interests: reading, writing, cooking, laughing, editing, organizing
Languages: English, French, ASL
Books: The Kin of Ata are Waiting for Your by Dorothy Bryant, Jane by April Lindner, This is All by Aidan Chambers, Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Music: Glee
TV/Movies: Gossip Girl, Glee, Good Eats, Cold Case, Bones, Taboo
Travel: I've been to the mediterrainian area of Spain, France and Italy. I loved Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Carcassonne, Rome, Pisa. I want to go to England, Sweden, NYC and Pompeii.
Clubs: uhm... club soda?
annual cookin..
