katestine | Humpday poll - The mother of all food polls

From:

feyrieprincess.livejournal.com

Kate, my darling deatest, your poll is biased towards those who live in cities. I, for example, do not have access to the following: television (to know non-book writing chefs), a deli, Greek/Turkish, Afghan, or Cajun/Creole restaurants, Trader Joes (????), health food store/neighborhood coop, farmers market, street vendor, or a bodega (although I learned about them in the movie "Half Baked").

I do, however, have access to Thai food, and have set-up residence in the local restaurant. I have my own table there, my own waiter, my own tent, and a small cot in the corner of the kitchen. My special table is located behind an enormous alter full of incense and wood-carved gods. I peek out of the eyeholes of the thunder god at the other customers and dine on Tom Kah Kai soup and Panang curry. This blocks me from being seen and commented upon by the ravening hoardes of rednecks suspiciously poking at their PadThai whilst exclaiming things such as, "Darrell- what the hell kinda spaghetti is this ?!?!?!"

From:

kkkkkkkkat.livejournal.com

mmm... I want Tom Kah Kai soup and Panang curry *now*.

From:

katestine.livejournal.com

I live in a city and I don't have a tv.

How can you not have cajun/creole restaurants?? You live in the south! Did noone from New Orleans move to SC after Katrina and open a restuarant??? Fools!

Country people are more likely to have farm stands than city people.

Trader Joes was in flyover country long before they made it to NYC.

"Darrell- what the hell kinda spaghetti is this ?!?!?!"
I sprayed my breakfast on the screen reading that.

From:

katestine.livejournal.com

also, in general, this was kinda the point of the poll. I was horrified as I was learning about Julia Child to realize that when she started, restaurants served steak and such, and nobody ate ethnic food, whereas many of friends talk about getting Moroccan or Ethiopian food without batting an eyelash over its exoticness and based on the results so far, we're more likely to eat sushi or Indian food than Italian, French, or even Chinese.

From:

jadia.livejournal.com

I don't even like french food.

From: (Anonymous)

Aren't you glad we have more choices now??

From:

jadia.livejournal.com

Oh, and I have decided that asian and italian foods are the only two foods I can constantly eat without getting sick of it. I spent my entire vacation in Italy eating italian food and I wasn't sick of it, so that's pretty good proof.

Everything else, I do get tired of.

From:

regyt.livejournal.com

Yeah, we're totally spoiled here. I realize it every time I travel. And every time people haven't even heard of some ingredients I use all the time and take totally for granted.

From:

clayfoot.livejournal.com

Quite right. The farmer's market is pretty far away, and whole food stores and coops are nonexistent. We do get peaches and pecans from a nearby packing plant, but I have to order paw-paws from Ohio.

From: (Anonymous)

But don't you have farm stands??

From:

clayfoot.livejournal.com

Some, but even those are fairly uncommon for some reason. The larger ones (and even the farmer's market!) stock fruits and vegetables clearly labeled the same as the grocery store offerings. Perhaps, that's just the grocery stores buying locally, too.

From:

devina.livejournal.com

My assumption is, of course, that after Bobby Flay gets done with his cooking, we have mad crazy sex every week.

If there's no sex, I'd go with Batali, as he's the one most likely to tell me fun stories about Italian villages.

From:

katestine.livejournal.com

d00d, stop taunting those of us who didn't spend the last two weeks having sex! :-P Or, y'know, visiting Italy.

Speaking of which, why didn't you like Florence?

From:

devina.livejournal.com

We didn't spend the -entire- two weeks having sex, or when would I have time to shop for fabulous hats?

Too touristy. I loved several paintings in the Uffizi, but overall I liked the Borghese museum a lot better. The people are ruder in Florence than in Rome, and the city feels a lot less intimate than either Rome or Milan.

From: (Anonymous)

I need pictures of hats.

really?? When I did Rome & Florence in the same trip, we hated Rome and loved Florence, which felt far less touristy than Rome. Part of it was that Florence felt cooler, I think, and the hotel room was larger. But yes, Borghese is much awesomer. (although it's not really a fair comparison - it's like comparing the Met to the Frick or the MFA to the Isabella Stewart Gardner - there's something about personal collections that's so very neat.)

From:

devina.livejournal.com

No pictures. Kite let me leave Milan without buying the very stylish one I tried on.

Part of it may be that we didn't do the super-touristy things in Rome. We went to Saint Peter's, but besides that, stuck to the small neighborhood where I lived. Florence doesn't seem to have much in the way of pretty little neighborhoods that aren't flooded with tourists, perhaps a function of just being a smaller city. Milan felt much the same was as Rome did.

From: (Anonymous)

Egads. That's why you should've taken me along - I would've snuck out and bought it for you when he wasn't looking.

Did you make it over to the altarno (sp?) at all? We got throroughly lost in a very residential neighborhood before happening on a trattoria where I had one of the best meals of my life: pecorino drizzled with honey and pine nuts, bistecca alla fiorentina, and some ridiculously tasty dessert I cannot recall.

From:

vree.livejournal.com

Good plan. While Flay's at your house cooking for you his wife can come visit with me. I'll make sure she's not lonely.

From: (Anonymous)

I didn't know they were married, but after looking at her Wiki entry, I, um, would have to agree. woof!

From:

kkkkkkkkat.livejournal.com

I checked "phone for takeout" because there wasn't an "internet for takeout" option, and I assumed the takeout part was the key element of the question. I never actually use the phone, of course.

From:

gmpe.livejournal.com

I'm not sure on whether our market is local or national, so I picked local because I think it's a local chain, even though it's huge around here. Things like "my garden" and "the farmer's market" are seasonal, but I picked yes anyway.

Also, I have this theory that I will use the slow cooker all the time, but so far it's only a theory, so it's not checked either. :)

From: (Anonymous)

"regularly" in this poll was meant to keep out people who'd say, "Well, I bought something from Whole Foods once before a party, so *click*" So yes, I know gardens are seasonal. (And I am very jealous that you have that option.)

Really? How come you don't use it? Is it new?

From:

gmpe.livejournal.com

It's not something we used a lot when I was growing up, so I don't have a good sense for how to use it without using recipes. I have trouble finding recipes for it that I want to try. Because it's not something I can just go and do, I find it so much easier to just go and cook something.

I am tempted to get and try using a pressure cooker. My grandmother made some really yummy chicken and potatoes for us in it the last time we were there. It feels like a way to speed up dishes that I would make instead of having to come up with different recipes like for the slow cooker. Also, I love using our convection toaster oven to speed up cooking time and not have to use the big oven.

From:

vree.livejournal.com

Whew, That first question was a killer. It took much debate and thought o pick Madhur and in the end it was only because i have a very hard time duplicating her recipies whereas I can Duplicate Mario and Julia fairly well.

From:

egofood.livejournal.com

The Julia Child vote was cast with the idea that Graham Kerr might also drop by now and then.

From:

clayfoot.livejournal.com

In lieu of the celebrity chef in Q1, could I designate a

katestine to be named later?

From: (Anonymous)

That's a pretty dangerous choice once I get bored of cooking. When I was telling a girlfriend that the guy I was planning to marry at the time insisted that I cook for our family once a week, her immediate response was, "Mac 'n cheese once a week! Your kids will love that!"

From:

clayfoot.livejournal.com

So you're saying my designated

katestine would be over once a week, but not to cook dinner. Still not seeing a down side here.

From:

meep.livejournal.com

What about Freshdirect?

Anyway, I had to leave the others blank, because it's Stu who cooks, not me.

From: (Anonymous)

*bangs head on desk* I knew I forgot an option, although one could argue that FreshDirect is a national chain.

But you know what he uses to cook, right?

From:

meep.livejournal.com

Oh, yeah. But I already submitted poll answers.

FreshDirect, UrbanOrganic (not really like farmer's market, because it's not all local), Key Foods, and direct internet order of "boutique" meats and dairy. Also, he drives to CT to get us raw milk. Mmmm, yum. Then there's the wine shops, which are just mom & pop deals (we use wine as an ingredient, too... this one wine sauce that uses a whole stick of butter! awesome!). And we've got an herb garden (though it's pretty dead right now.)

From:

jadia.livejournal.com

* I answered "grill" because my george foreman grill totally counts and is the entire reason why I never eat steak at a restaurant anymore.

* I also don't know who most of the cooks are, but Mario whatever makes italian food, and I can't get sick of that, so I picked that.

* I also don't know what local vs. national supermarket is, so I clicked both. I usually go to Foodmaster or Shaws. Whole foods is too expensive for me and Trader Joe's has too small a selection.

From: (Anonymous)

Shaws is a national chain. I was trying to draw a distinction between a local market, like Fairway, and a big ugly generic supermarket, like Star or Gristede's, but that example totally failed bc Star and Gristede's are big and generic but specific to MA and NYC. *le sigh*

From:

mrcairo.livejournal.com

It was an odd tossup between Nobu Matsuhisa, Madhur Jaffrey and Mario Batali. I've eaten at Nobu several times, and really have a good idea as to what the whole experience is like. With the other two, I only know them via their books/brands, and don't really have the firsthand experience. I think I'd enjoy them though. But Nobu... MMMmmm. It's been a long time since I've been there. Too long.

From:

fischstick.livejournal.com

My "Bread Maker" check is only valid if you interpret hands, cutting board and bowls as a "bread maker" ;-)

I was surprised on reading this to realize that even though I live in a sleepy, bedroom community suburb of the city, I have every one of those cuisines (in some cases several) within a 5 mile radius of my house (fudging a little with the Afghan - there's an excellent Kebab House that is sort of a mix of Persian and Afghan cuisines).

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