About

I adore eating/talking about/thinking about/reading about good, nourishing food, but my education and work experience have nothing to do with the food industry or nutrition.

I’m a libertarian lawyer and fitness enthusiast.  My legal practice areas are estate planning, real estate transactions, corporate law.  My fitness practice areas are Zumba, Turbo Kick, Hip Hop Hustle and PiYo.  You’ll note about a 2 year gap in posts on this blog.  I was building up my fitness classes.  You can read fitness related stuff on my other blog.

"Studying" for the bar exam. I did pass, if you were curious.

I’m originally from SoCal and moved to Nashua, NH in May of 2006.

I think I was always a Yankee girl at heart. (Edit: My husband points out that I may want to differentiate between Yankee: the region, and Yankee: the nefarious sports team. I meant Yankee the region and am pro-Red Sox by marriage).

If I see the following things on the menu, I will always, always order them: Escargots, pan-seared foie gras, anything with pumpkin, desserts with coconut, things with fruit compote.

My handsome husband first introduced me to the joys of $30+ meat at Morton’s Steakhouse. At first I demurred at such extravagance. I eventually got over it.

I tend to avoid whipped cream after a bad childhood experience involving too many cream puffs (an experiment of my sister’s) and an afternoon spent reading “The Secret Garden.”

My favorite cuisine is Moroccan. I also like, in order of importance: Spanish, Italian, Persian, Greek, and Mexican food.

My husband and I used to eat at a great Vietnamese place in Bellevue, WA called “What the Pho.” If I were Vietnamese, I would open a restaurant called “Pho King.” Get it?

I think that mayonnaise is from the devil but I like aioli and yes, there is a difference.

I only eat ketchup on French Fries and I always introduce the fry into ketchup, never the ketchup onto the plate of the fries lest it make my fries soggy. I’m gradually learning to like a nice grainy dijon mustard.  Keep that scary yellow French’s crap away from me because I have a sensitive gag reflex (I’m not kidding.  That mustard water comes out of the squeeze tube and my cookies will be tossed).

My favorite ice cream is Cherry Vanilla Chip from Kimball’s Farm. Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia is fine too. Actually, I’m not really that picky about ice cream. Bring it.

I am a wino.

Some of that famous Granite State fall foliage!

I like gangster gangsta rap as long as the profanity is edited out. I think Britney Spears is a kick ass dancer and Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn have revolutionized American cinema in a good way.