MEET MY CLASSMATES, 17 QUESTIONS...ZOE

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.

Zoe came to New York to attend FCI and has been staying in the school dorms on Roosevelt Island. She now works at Murray's Cheese Shop and seems to have an exciting career in cheese ahead of her. She's planning to get training in the South of France for Murray's after she graduates from FCI. I have to go get a tour of Murray's Cheese caves soon!

NAME: Zoe Brickley
FROM: Indiana
BDAY: June 3rd, 1983
FAVORITE FOOD: Falafel

1) McDonald's or Burger King?
-- Neither. BK, if pressed.
2) Coffee or Tea?
-- Both. Coffee, if pressed.
3) Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts?
-- Neither. Starbucks, if pressed.
4) Burgers of BBQ?
-- Veggie burger.
5) What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
-- Coffee with caramel-fudge, marshmallow, and graham cracker. Never found it.
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?
-- French onion soup
7) What food do you hate the most?
-- Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, McDonald's, BK, BBQ, burgers and Bacon!
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?
-- My hummus recipe.
9) Name three jobs you've had:
-- Dogwatcher, Pizzabuy, lifeguard, and slacker.
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?
-- Lobster and scallops, grilled with truffle beurre blanc and a waffle.
11) What's the most inventive and successful dish you've ever made?
-- Pan-seared, home-made, queso blanco with braised endive.
12) What's the biggest flop you've ever made?
-- Stuffed dolmas.
13) Who are your favorite and most hated food celebrities?
Favorite: Alton Brown Most Hated: Alton Brown
14) What's your favorite cookbook?
-- Alice Water's "Vegetables"
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. I'd get a goat or a carrot. A goat with a carrot.
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.
-- Gnuddi- ricotta gnocchi in a butter sauce with lamb roast and mint pistou.
-- A new commerical kitchen and a lease farm.
17) In 20 words or less, describe what made you make the food leap to FCI.
-- Disovering the heinous state of Industrial farming in America & randomly taking a line-cook job in College and my mom telling me I wasn't alloweed to move to California and join the Enviro's.