January 21 - Three Foods

I love food. All of it. From over the world.

Which three foods best describe your personality?

Ooooh this is a tough one because I love food. All of it. From all over the world.

For starters, I have a very strange general food anxiety: it’s painful for me to waste food. I’m convinced I was a starving pauper in every single past life I’ve lived until this one because it hurts my soul to throw away food or see it being thrown away. (This was very tough working in a restaurant for decades, too.) Not sure if I saw too many of those starving African commercials when I was a child or what—but I’ll overeat before I waste food. Another theory is that because I come from a big family (I’m the oldest of five) there was rarely food to waste and never leftovers and it was always the person who ate the fastest who got seconds. Maybe I was just hungry a lot growing up! Either way, I think that anxiety around food itself probably says a lot about my personality—I’m a worry wart and always have been.

Now for the main course. Today we are serving: