Suzanne
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Gender | Female |
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Location | Indiana, United States |
Introduction | After a lifelong love affair with food -- I am caught under an avalanche of "issues" ... • eating gluten free (for the rest of my life) • a husband with diabetes • a need to lose significant weight • a litany of "overweighty" health problems • a commitment to eating sustainable foods • avoiding pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and other nasties ... yada yada yada YES! I am definitely a Foodie on the Brink!! |
Interests | Food, movies, music and books! |
Favorite Movies | Babettes Gæstebud (Babette's Feast - 1987, Danish) |
Favorite Music | The great female singers of the 60s: Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin ... kept alive by the likes of Joan Osborne, Annie Lennox, Gwen Stefani, Pink |
Favorite Books | Besides my dozens of beloved cookbooks (too numerous to mention) ... IN DEFENSE OF FOOD (Michael Pollan), MY YEAR OF MEATS (Ruth L. Ozeki), KAFKA ON THE SHORE (Haruki Murakami), SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS (Marisha Pessl), LOON LAKE (E L Doctorow), ULYSSES & THE DUBLINERS (2 by James Joyce), THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE (Amy Tan), WHERE IS THE MANGO PRINCESS (Cathy Crimmins), THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING (Joan Didion), A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY (John Irving), BLEAK HOUSE (Charles Dickens), WORKING (Studs Terkel), SHE'S COME UNDONE and I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE (2 by Wally Lamb), MY YOUNG YEARS (Arthur Rubenstein)... And the "mysterious" works of Marcia Muller, my dear friend and ofttimes role model |