What Alex Guarnaschelli Ate Last Week

Alex Guarnaschelli was recently featured in an awesome New York Mag/Grub Street piece in which she describes some of the yummy things she ate all week. I love the way she describes food: "I ate chicken-liver crostini, a roasted chicken with fennel, and a huge — like ridiculously, embarrassingly huge — homemade apple tart, which was just shy of pornographic."


You can really tell she knows food and understands flavors' intricacies.

But she's not afraid to talk about her imperfections:
"I make a really crappy omelet. I shouldn’t say crappy. I always start out with the intention of making a beautiful omelet and it always tastes good but it doesn’t always look so pretty. Nine times out of ten I will turn an omelet into a scramble at the last minute and pretend like that’s what I always set out to make."

Advice on acting domestic:
"I have a friend in from out of town and I wanted to pretend to be domestic. The best way to do that is to turn the oven on and put something with cinnamon in it in the oven."

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I'm still debating whether I should go out and get my free Starbucks for voting this morning. I might need the caffeine if this things goes on all night. Hope everyone's holding out all right!