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Website: http://www.missginsu.com

Location: Brooklyn, NY

About: Miss Ginsu lives in a Greenpoint, Brooklyn apartment with a small kitchen. When not cooking, baking, eating or sharpening her knives, Miss Ginsu likes to watch movies & go to the farmer's market.

Favorite foods: Hot chocolate, arepas, chickpeas, brussels sprouts, Belgian beers, coal-fired pizza, granola & yogurt, kimchi, pickled ramps, sushi, bourbon, micheladas, latkes, cassoulet, apple pie, fresh peaches, spring peas, garden tomatoes...

Last bite on earth: Will be chewed well.

The Ten Most Recent Comments By missginsu

From Serious Eats: New York

Fiore: Seriously Delicious Budget Italian

Nice photography! Fiore is just down the street, so I've been meaning to check this place out forever. I'd better go before people catch on...

From Required Eating

A Guide to Good Tequila

A nice sipping tequila is a beautiful thing. It's too bad this liquor's name is maligned by college binge drinking. When I was in Mexico, I tried some lovely tequilas and they were often served with a sangrita alongside (a small tomato-juice chaser).

Under the Volcano in NYC has some great high-end tequilas as well as delightful sipping mezcals. They serve them in little terracotta dishes. Smoky, lovely... nothing like the rubbing alcohol you see in corner liquor stores.

From Required Eating

Tortilla d'Oro

Oh, those are very nice tweaks indeed... Bravo!

From Required Eating

In Videos: George Carlin on Food, Live at Carnegie Hall (1980)

"Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward." One of my favorite Carlin quips.

From Required Eating

Everything's Peachy in Georgia Right Now

Oh man... it won't be peach season in New York for months. I'm may have to plan a peach field trip to the deep south next year...

From Required Eating

Smelly Postage Stamps from Around the World

A contact in China brought back some of the piggy stamps (in collector-style envelopes, no less) for me, and they just smell like stamps. No sweet & sour. I wonder if there's black-market stamp counterfeiting going on...

From Required Eating

Served: Why I Have the Best Job in the World

Looking forward to reading your posts!

Restaurant life is sooo different from office life. You're right on with the teamwork/family angle. I really miss the kind of instant camaraderie that develops based around mutual (necessary) trust and respect.

Restaurants are about blunt honesty. In a kitchen, you can have a screaming match with someone and know you'll clink beers together at the end of the night. Offices run on subtleties and tenuous alliances.

From Required Eating

McDonald's Diet: Man Gets McFit with Salads and Snack Wraps

In the AdAge article, even McD's doesn't want weight-loss credit.

That's really smart.

If Coleson died of a heart attack tomorrow (while they were heralding him as a dietary hero), they'd be in for serious PR issues...

From Required Eating

An Homage to Kimchi

Great tip! I'm an enthusiastic late-comer to the kimchi party. There's precious little of the stuff in the upper Midwest...

From Required Eating

'Where Are the Women?': On the Scarcity of Female Chefs

Though there's increasingly more women in the kitchen, in NYC it's *not* a female-friendly environment. You really have to be a hard individual... one of the guys. Maybe even *better than* the guys.

As a line cook, I was encouraged to take up residence in the all-female pastry department with shocking frequency (pretty impressive, considering I suck at pastry and have little experience in that environment) and it took far longer for me to move up through the ranks than the guys. All the dudes I worked with said that kind of bias was stupid (actually, they used words more harsh than that, but I'll leave that to the imagination), but there's really nothing you can do about sexism. It's still part of the business.

That said, TV and catering hold a lot more potential for women chefs.

Responses to Comments by missginsu

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Lamb Kofta

Made this into turkey burgers that were absolutely delicious for the 4th.

From Serious Eats: New York

Fiore: Seriously Delicious Budget Italian

ate there tonight. great service, nice atmosphere, good prices!

From Slice

Pizzeria Bianco Mops the Floor with Mozza

Just adding a special mention for an appetizer. The spiedini which is fontina cheese wrapped in proscuitto it's amazing. Glad you like the Rosa Lance.

From Serious Eats: New York

Fiore: Seriously Delicious Budget Italian

I love Bianca... it'll be nice to have a Bianca'esque option in Williamsburg

From Required Eating

In Videos: George Carlin on Food, Live at Carnegie Hall (1980)

George was just pure genius. Cheers to George!

From Required Eating

In Videos: George Carlin on Food, Live at Carnegie Hall (1980)

So sad. My 16-year-old son is in deep mourning... he's heartbroken! Having only discovered George in the last year or two, I think he's feeling a bit short-changed, and understandably so. I myself was about that age when I discovered him, and have so many fond memories of playing his records (yes, they were vinyl) over and over again with my friends. Such a bright, funny, insightful man.

My favorite Carlin routine about food was the one where he discussed the rotten stuff in the fridge. Regarding something furry, "It could be meat. It could be cake. It must be meat-cake!" And, describing some completely unrecognizable greenish liquid as "lettuce soup..." (blech).

But my favorite overall was the one about STUFF. All true and so, so funny.

RIP George.

From Required Eating

In Videos: George Carlin on Food, Live at Carnegie Hall (1980)

I echo his sentiments on tomatoes, and I know my husband will appreciate his view on yogurt. R.I.P. George. You will be missed.

From Eating Out

Snapshots from Italy: Sfoglia or Frolla?

Now THAT'S what i'm talkin about.
Half the reason I had to buy your book!
Can't wait for the next entry...especially if it's more sweets.

From Slice

Pizzeria Bianco Mops the Floor with Mozza

I've actually gone back twice and you're so right about the Rosa. Even funnier, it's my wife's favorite, as well. I kind of dragged her there and when we left she gave a 10 minute dissertation on why Bianco is a master.

From Slice

Pizzeria Bianco Mops the Floor with Mozza

Next time you go there try the Rosa pizza. It has crushed pistachios, unbelievable. The pizza just isn't great, it's the whole experience. After dinner the wife said she had the best latte she's ever had. It just goes back to the freshest ingredients available. Can't wait to go back.