Serious Eats: Catherine's Profile

My favorite pork memory is discovering how good Spanish hams can be on a trip through Spain in 2001. I loved all the tapas bars with hams hanging from the ceilings.

Catherine at 1:50PM on 12/22/08

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Catherine at 10:07AM on 12/20/08

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Well, I have a few. The first would be visiting my grandfather's pig farm when I was a kid. We never saw them do any slaughtering but I do remember I loved seeing all the baby pigs. For a pork-eating memory, I'd have to go with traveling through Spain in 2001 and tasting jamon iberico for the first time, and seeing all the hams hanging from the ceilings of tapas bars - complete with a little cup to catch any drippings as they aged.

Catherine at 2:47PM on 12/09/08

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I don't remember the specific wine, but it was my introduction to Rhone wines at the now defunct restaurant Avenue 9 in San Francisco. Their regular wine dinners in the late 1990s encouraged my husband and I to try many new varietals and move out of a chardonnay and pinot noir rut.

Catherine at 4:39PM on 09/02/08

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Fried Okra -- Give it some serious love!

I love it! I do make it at home when I can find it, which is not all that often in NYC unless I go to the Indian markets in Queens. I only make it fried occasionally, more often I just saute it with some cajun seasoning, or make it in an Indian preparation.

Catherine at 9:39AM on 06/29/08

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