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amyzan

Real Name:

Amy (as if you didn't ascertain that...)

Location:

once rural small town quickly becoming bedroom community for KC commuters

Best meal I ever ate:

Any of the many meals I had while visiting Rome over Christmas break when I was 21. Those three weeks changed my view of food forever.

My current drink of choice:

cold peppermint or ceylon

I really wish I could:

carry a tune

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

dinner party? hahahahaha

My favorite comfort food:

tori zosui

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Buga (San Diego, CA); Izakaya Sakura (San Diego, CA); Pizza Bella (Kansas City, MO,); Room 39 (Kansas City, MO or Leawood, KS)

My most tattered cookbooks:

James Beard's American Cooking; Cook's Illustrated hardbound; Yamuna Devi's Lord Krishna's Cuisine: Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking; Deborah Madison's VC4E; Bill Neal's Biscuits, Spoonbread, Sweet Potato Pie; Hiroko Shimbo's Japanese Kitchen