MEET MY CLASSMATES, 17 QUESTIONS...SARAH

I've been attending school since January during which time I've gotten to know my classmates but since beginning to write about school in April, you haven't gotten the same opportunity. It's long since time that you were introduced to a great bunch of people. This occasional feature, 17 Questions, will give you an idea of who they are, their culinary likes and dislikes and why they decided to go to FCI in the first place.

I haven't been teamed up with Sarah since creating Kitchen Toro in April but we were teamed up together towards the end of Level One at the oven near the front of the class near Chef V. We had fun-- she nicknamed me "A-Dog," so I called her "S-Cat."

NAME: Sarah Blair
FROM: Cornish, N.H.
BDAY: January 21st, 1983
FAVORITE FOOD: Seafood

1) McDonald's or Burger King?
-- McDonald's
2) Coffee or Tea?
-- Coffee
3) Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts?
-- Starbucks
4) Burgers of BBQ?
-- Burgers
5) What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
-- Reverse chocolate chunk- cocolate ice cream with white chocolate.
6) What's the dish that if on the menu, no matter how many times you've eat it you still can't help but order?
-- Seared scallops or seared tuna.
7) What food do you hate the most?
-- White trash food.
8) Do you have any heirloom recipes passed on to you by grandparents, parents, siblings or friends and if so what is the recipe for? If not, what's an old standby recipe you never have to look up that you love to cook?
-- Potato pancakes - Bomb Dig!
9) Name three jobs you've had:
-- Waitress, public relations assistant, and editorial assistant.
10) You're stranded in the mountains after miscalculating a parachute-jump while foraging for a rare ingredient, splendifera tremens, a spice that grows only on cliff-sides. After 2 weeks surviving on the horrible-tasting leaves of this plant, 20 lbs lighter, you finally return to civilization rich with it. You can afford any food on the plante-- what's your first meal?
-- Filet mignon
11) What's the most inventive and successful dish you've ever made?
-- Coconut curry
12) What's the biggest flop you've ever made?
-- Banana bread
13) Who are your favorite and most hated food celebrities?
Favorite: Ming Tsai Most Hated: Rachel Ray
14) What's your favorite cookbook?
-- Ellen Hellman
15) Do you have any tattoos and if so how many? If you don't have one what would yours be if you decided to get one?
-- No. "Your Mom."
16) You're cooking for a party of influential people and if it's successful you could win one of the prizes, behind the following doors:
#1 A food TV show
#2 A Ferrari and a KitchenAid mixer
#3 A new commercial kitchen and a lease
Describe what you would cook and circle the door.
-- Ceviche and Carribbean Extravaganza
-- A food TV show.
17) In 20 words or less, describe what made you make the food leap to FCI.
-- I was odd in college. I wouldn't eat Mac + Cheese and pizza.