BLOG CONTRIBUTORS

THU TRAN, BROOKLYN NY
When it comes to eating, Thu truly practices OMNIVERISM. She has eaten or prepared at least 1,000 species of the animal kingdom and at least 500 of the plant kingdom. One time, her dad stole pigeon eggs from a bird’s nest outside their kitchen window and prepared it for breakfast and told her and her brothers that he used witchery to shrink the eggs. Eggs are now her favorite food, not because of that.

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DAVE KROFTA , CHICAGO IL
Dave Krofta is a Budget Bourgeois specialist residing in Cleveland, OH. Fave meals include, Tuna Ladder Loaf, Stoner Stir-Fry, and Ostrich Egg Omelets. If it’s sorta red or sorta brown, but completely delicious, then Dave probably made it!

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ZACHARIAH DURR, BROOKLYN NY
Zachariah is an artsy comedian who lives in New York. He loves garlic, coffee, and chocolate. Not together.

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LISA RAMSEY, BROOKLYN NY
Lisa Ramsey prefers savory snacks to sweet ones despite the connection of sweets like pies and cookies to some of her fondest childhood memories. She enjoys eating simply and with single ingredients. Therefore spices and condiments play a huge role in her dining experiences. Lisa Ramsey has been known to eat a quality mustard a la carte. Her interest in raw and home grown foods and drinks is also noteworthy. She brews her own kombucha and has often employed edible flowers and wild fruits/berries in her favorite dishes.

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SANDRA CHI, BROOKLYN NY
Basically, Sandra loves fried food with heavy application of Sriracha hot sauce to eliminate grease shock and increase pleasant experience of crunchiness in her mouth. Oh, and of course, white rice can’t be missed out from this heavy duty dining experience. That’s all for now. She will add more when she can gather her regular dining menu. Fried chicken is all she can think about at this moment.

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ERIKA NEOLA, BROOKLYN NY

Erika Neola is a part-Spanish, part-Mexican, part-Vampire, part-Vegetarian enjoyer of snacks. When not cooking with her best buddy Davey K and listening to Hall and Oates, she’s been known to whip up a good dip or two. (probably because dips are close to salsas and well, salsas are mexi) Erika also enjoys the fine art of baking cakes and pies and sweets.
Loves: ASIAN FARE, LIMES, AVOCADOS, BANANAS, VEGGIE-FAUX & MASHIES.
Hates: SUPER SPICY SHIT, DAIRY OVERLOAD & POOR GRAMMAR.

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DOAN BUU, BROOKLYN NY

Raised on a steady diet of Vietnamese homecooking and American fast food, Doan sees himself as a simple yet adventurous eater. A meat and potatoes kind of guy, he’s mainly drawn to area-centric foods and good old American fare, especially if they come out of a shack, diner, or cart. A big fan of cheese and buffalo wings, he also considers himself somewhat of a hotdog connoisseur, and sees pho as the end-all in terms of hangover cures.

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CHRISTINE KELLY, CLEVELAND OH

Christine Kelly claims that her entire life experience has been tinted by a 1980′s music video for The Burning Sensations’ Belly of the Whale. She loves writing about food and anything else that tickles the senses. One day her favorite foods will be scallops, shortbread, and sausage and the next it might be baklava, brown betty, and butter beans that she is craving. What will she pull out of the alphabet soup next?

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VINALD WILFRED LONNE-CHESTER FRANCIS, BOSTON MA

Vinald is the offspring of Caribbean immigrants from Montserrat, West Indies. At an early age he began to associate food with love and developed a keen ‘food memory’, often forgetting major aspects of family vacations save for the restaurants and meals had during. His mother caters, specializing in Caribbean pastries and traditional dishes as well as American foods. His teenage years were all barbecue. And when it wasn’t barbecue, it was breakfast foods. After he went to college and had to fend for himself for a few years, he had the great fortune of living with a fellow 1st generation American, one Thu Anh Tran, who taught him in the ways of the Vietnam cooking styles. Much experimentation, fun and fusion-cooking ensued, and for three years they created some of the most ambitious dishes he has ever seen (ambitious dishes being her specialty). He is always trying to expand his horizons. He looks, listens, reads, and tastes everything he can.

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JED HOLTZ (ELIAS’ TWIN), BROOKLYN NY

Jed learned to cook with Thu before he was even gay, and lists cooking with her among the highest of earthly experiences. He tends to lean towards more traditional European Joy of Cooking techniques for classic dishes, tempered by a love of trashy vegetarian substitutions with a capital SUB. Prone to a bit of snobbery and open to indulgences of Shamu proportions,
Jed likes:
dejeuner en plein air
bagel bundles
salt sweet combos
AU NATURAL
wifey cravings

Dislikes:
carb counters

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ELIAS HOLTZ (Jed’s Twin), BROOKLYN NY

Elias is kind of interested in the whole GAYSIAN feel of this project.

His foodie experience has been a journey starting from a fleshy + potato and 70’s grandma casserole approach absorbed from his farm upbringing in upstate NY, polished by a snotty apprenticeship under a vegan stripper witch in college in Seattle, tempered in most recent years by a “faggot may care” or “WHO GIVS A DAM” type attitude towards dairy, ovum, and chicken of the sea, etc. He hopes to add a valuable contribution of his perspective on the Ranch Tooth as well as post weekly EGGERS™ comics. Current obsessions = Ginny Weasley and Enchiladas.

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MR. BEE, IN THE AIR

Mr. Bee is a cartoon Bee, currently trapped in the flesh of a man. Some day he hopes to be reincarnated in the shape of a spoon so that he may live in delicious soups, and ice cream…

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ANDREW STRASSER, BROOKLYN NY

Meat Man aka Beef Boy aka Atkins Breath is either on the Atkins Diet or off of the Atkins diet. Never anything else.

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