Calling all cooks!

As you may know I have not had a Friday interview in a while.  That was becuase it became to difficult and time consuming to try to find different people with different perspectives to interview.  However, that being said I'd still love to do it but I need your help.  If you are a blossoming cook, chef, wanna-be-food-network-star, etc... I'd love to hear from you.  Feel free to email me at CourtLatter at gmail dot com and I'll get back to you about possibly posting a Friday interview about your cooking skills.  By the way you don't have to do any talking, video, etc... it's strictly done via email.  I can't wait to see who we hear from!  I also want to apologize for having to type out my email but if I don't do that I will get spam and lets face it who wants to clean out a spam mailbox every day?

Friday's Interview - another New Yorker

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

Ok, so the last Friday interview I posted was from a New Yorkers  perspective and so is this one.  Can you tell I'm slightly obsessed with New York?  I'm actually going for my third visit in about 6 days and can't wait!  For those of you who don't know one of my closest friends moved to New York last year to immerse herself in the Asian culture that exists outside Brooklyn.  She is going to be leaving this fall to be a missionary in Asian and thought it would be best to learn the culture and people before she left.  Currently she works for an organization called Urban Impact, below is a video about them or you can find out more information by clicking here. 

Friday Interview - New York

“They say life's what happens when you're busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens when you're waiting for a table.”

 - Sarah Jessica Parker

I'll be here soon! (Central Park)

I love New York!  I went for the first time almost three years ago in the middle of summer, my husband took me back to visit his sister while we were dating, and I'll be going for a third time at the end of this month!!!  One of my very close friends (Amanda) and I will be going to visit another close friend, Caitlin.  The three of us have been friends since high school, you may have read the story here, and have been trying to plan a girls weekend for a while.  However, this year Caitlin will be moving to Asia, Amanda will be having a baby, and well I'll still be in Tampa so we knew we had to take our trip soon.  Thanks to the amazing sister-in-law, Micah, we won't have to pay to rent a hotel in the city because she has offered for us to stay with her!  You don't have to tell me, I know I have the best in-laws ever!  Micah and I have talked several times about when we'll be staying there and she constantly mentions that due to the great location she lives in her place is smaller.  Lucky for all of us we don't mind close quarters.  The more I thought about it the more I realized she would be the perfect person to ask cooking questions.  Not only is she a fabulous cook she has to be extremely creative to be able to make everything in her small kitchen.  So here's Friday's interview from a New Yorker's perspective!  (By the way I LOVE her last tip!) 

Friday Interview

Last week we had an interview with a line cook for Seasons52 and this week we are going to go a different route with an interview from a Wellness Educator for a local Tampa hospital.  Bethany used to be my roommate and she is definitely my "fitness-extraordinaire" friend.  Bethany has been a nurse for a few years and was just recently promoted to wellness educator.  Her perspective is one from a busy yet fit lifestyle focused on making good choices and eating less processed food.  I hope you enjoy her healthy perspective as much as I do!!! Oh, and if you like what you read from her check out her healthy blog at www.FitRN.blogspot.com

First Friday Interview

Here's my second surprise of the week.  I personally love different cooking styles from different people and I wanted to be able to share that with you.   Although I'm glad you enjoy reading my perspective on what I like I also wanted to be able to give you a different perspective on cooking from others that might cook differently than me.  This could be a challenging undertaking some weeks so bear with me as I get started and try to update this portion weekly.  For the first interview I decided to ask someone who I go to with questions when I want to know how to cook "properly".  Allison is my youngest sister and let me tell you she knows her cooking.  While I may be one who likes to expiriment she is definitely the one who likes to follow the recipe exactly but really put good technique to use.  While my dishes may taste great and not look so hot her dishes always come out immaculate!  I mean who else do I know that peels her celery sticks so that you don't have that stringy gross stuff!!!  She's pretty much amazing at that!  After High School Allie attended Le Cordon Blue for culinary school.  After graduating with her culinary degree she went on to work for the Ritz Carlton in Naples, FL and eventually Seasons52 in Orlando.  I hope you enjoy her perspective as much as I do!!!