deb is - a food obsessed leo living and writing in a 100+ year old craftsman-style bungalow in augusta, georgia 

worst food experience - stranded, slurping bleak onion soup from a hotel buffet line on day three of one of washington DC’s worst snow storms

best food experience - eating pistachio ice cream in the heart of copenhagen at midnight while the churchbells rang in my 35^th year 

palate passions - ginger salad at burma (washington DC), sushi at ru san's (atlanta), the ahi burger and garlic fries at taylor's refresher (napa valley), and cecil’s coconut macaroon pancakes at chinaberry hill bed and breakfast (tacoma, washington)

favorite local dives - hildebrandt’s food store, arirang, and the sports center

worst childhood memory - the pillsbury dough boy's failure to emerge with the biscuits 

kitchen disasters - bologna noodle casserole, orzo pudding, potato pancakes, and my now legendary "tannies" 

and successes - lemon gelati, new mexican green chile stew, sausage and corn chowder, and my artichoke and red pepper pizza

props for my people - marian's everything, teresa's dutch babies, my mother's rouladen, my tante ingrid's frikkadellen, cheryl's lasagne, doreen's tamales, connie's cocktails, dick's bread, schwee’s stuffed shells, mike’s mexican brownies

funkiest food catalog - the lee bros. boiled peanuts catalog

savviest food magazine - saveur

adored food writer - mfk fisher (does it get any better than "my first oyster"?)

my last supper if i end up on death row - skin of baked chicken, my mother’s schnitzel, a cold negra modelo, and a gallon of breyer’s neopolitan ice cream

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