preocupada's Profile

I work a couple of blocks from Grand Central and I've often wondered about the Market. Now I know where I can buy some chorizo on the way home!

These sound delicious and pretty easy to boot. I may try them out over the 90-degree weekend.

I usually just say that I'm a food person, meaning that I like to both eat and cook. But that's only when I feel like I need to explain myself in some way to someone, like when I excitedly pipe up with some weird food fact during a conversation and get strange looks. Or when someone asks what I did over the weekend and I say that I made stock---again, to answer the looks.

I feel like "foodie" has become a snotty shorthand that some people often use to distinguish themselves, which makes me think they care more about status than food. But it's not always the case. My boyfriend characterized himself as a foodie when we first started dating (he offered a choice of three restaurants for our first date), and I think he just wanted to convey in a quick way what I mean by "food person."

In the end I think that, as with many popular terms, it's all about intentions.

No Hillary wine cork? For shame.

I think the watermelon faucet is charming, and I'm normally not even a dring-from-the-spigot type.

I hear you, Michelle; I'm eating a gritty spinach-and-pasta meal right now.

But I've also been known to under salt potatoes and rice, not preheat pans enough, not preheat oil enough, and cram too many ingredients into a pan.

I'm a decent cook in spite of all this, I swear!

I try to stick to a handful of trail mix in the afternoon if I can, but if I can hold out I go home and have my favorite post-work, pre-dinner snack of some avocado on top of a wheat crispbread and sprinkled with sea salt. Crackers with hummus work anytime, too.