Hey, Hi, Hello.
I started my Charm City Cook blog in 2010 as a way to document my kitchen adventures. After a couple of trips to Paris to visit my best friend, I developed an interest in food and cooking and I dove in — France really made me see everything about food differently. With the help of food television and people like Julia Child and Ina Garten, I began to try cooking new things. I like to call it tinkering. I prefer playing around with flavors and ingredients, tasting and figuring out what my dish needs. My cooking is often based on cravings — I hope yours is, too. That makes it more of an adventure.
Q&A
If you had to listen to one album on loop, for the rest of your life, what would it be?
U2, The Joshua Tree. I like albums that take you back to a place and time in your life.
What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not eating, drinking or cooking?
Sleeping.
What’s your go-to drink in a cocktail bar? Wine bar?
Vodka martini, up. Olives. Extra cold.
Dry, white.
In a dive bar?
Miller High Life.
The last text message you sent:
Love you.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting around a table picking crabs with people I love.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
That I didn’t go with the flow, although that might have been easier.
What is your most treasured possession?
My dad’s wedding band.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
The line at the post office.
Favorite food writing?
Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood Bones & Butter
What is your motto?
Don’t be a dick.
What do you love most about food?
That it creates a memory.
