20 Questions with a Slashfoodie: Monika Bartyzel

by Monika Bartyzel, Posted May 19th 2008 @ 10:01AM

Do you have a personal blog?
I have a few anonymous ones, but none that I update regularly.

What is your day job, or rather, what do you do when you're not food blogging?

Lots and lots of writing. My days are filled with movies and food.

How long have you been blogging with Slashfood and what is your favorite post?
I'm still in my first month at Slashfood! It's too early to name a favorite.

Do you have any non-food-related, non-blogging hobbies?
I've been known to converse with animals, drink rare beer brands, and read Henry Miller.

Not every foodie does, so we have to ask. Do you cook?
Yes, as much as I can.

What is your most prized utensil/gadget in the kitchen?
My coffee roaster.

List three things in your refrigerator right now.
Innis & Gun Oak Aged Beer, homemade beet pasta, and about 5 flavors of Kozlik's mustard

You have to impress a date with a meal. What are you going to make?
If it's up to me to decide, I'd make a gourmet pizza topped with veggies and probably elk sausage

What is the last thing you ate?
A yam and white potato kitchen-sink soup that had been chillin' in my freezer.

Confession time – what do you eat that will get you banned from Slashfood?
I don't know... The dive Mexican I love and devour even though the restaurant's kitchen is infamously scary?

If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?
fresh, crusty bread + tomato + garlic havarti cheese

Your Mom makes the best _____.
Italian Knot Cookies

Which chef would you most like to have come into your kitchen and cook you dinner?
Ricardo. I'm dying to know if he's as peppy in real life as he is in his magazine and on his television show.

With whom would you most like to eat dinner?
There's too many to pick just one -- the Algonquin Round Table, or Henry Rollins, or John Cleese, or Julia Child, or ...

Your drink of choice?
Alcoholic: It's a toss-up between a gimlet and a perfectly prepared Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall on the Beach in Manhattan.

Non-alcoholic: It's another toss-up -- Julep Iced Tea vs. Diet Vanilla Cherry Coke

Where was your best restaurant dining experience?
There's a bunch that stick out for different reasons.

However, my favorite eating area is Key West. Nothing compares to a day of rum cakes, perfect Key Lime pie, and some tasty Cuban food topped off with super-potent mojitos.

The worst?
Another tie, both in Toronto.

For service: The revolving restaurant that doesn't revolve anymore. I went with my friend and her parents for her birthday. When we arrived, almost all the tables were open, but we were forced to wait in a waiting area for 2-minutes, 2-feet away from our empty table, because they didn't have any menus. Then they were out of half the food on the menu. Then they forgot my friend's birthday cake. And that was topped off with the server asking me: "Is there anything else I could due TO you. He he. FOR you?" It was horrifying.

For food: The revolving restaurant that still revolves. I went dug into my salad, and just as I opened my mouth to shovel the greens in, I noticed something folded over one of the fork's prongs -- a dead caterpillar. To be fair, they were very apologetic, and every other time that I've been there, the food was excellent.

Do you want fries with that?
Yes! As long as they're crispy, and especially if they're served as poutine, or with wasabi mayo.

What foods do you think should be banished from existence?
Clamato, calamari, and seaweed

What do you see as the biggest "thing" in food for the coming year?
Elk!

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5-19-2008 @10:26AM Liz Petty said... But without seaweed there wouldn't be sushi!
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5-20-2008 @2:09PM Patrick R said... "Innis & Gun Oak Aged Beer"

This stuff is just plain awesome.
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5-20-2008 @10:17AM Kitt said... Ah, revolving restaurants. Who ever came up with that idea? You should post the knot cookies recipe, if your mom will share.

Welcome, Monika.
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