Cooking Issues

posted by Dave Arnold and Nastassia Lopez

(Hey, what is this Skål Project anyway?)

Cooking Issues has a new member. Please welcome:

Nastassia Lopez. We poached her from Cesare. Half Spanish, half Ukranian. Don’t ask to taste her drink.

And now…. Meat:

Mark Pastore. Heads up Pat La Frieda Wholesale Meat. Loves all types of meat.

Fish:

Toshio Suzuki. Chef at Sushi Zen. Fish master. Our Ike Jime Sensei. Incredibly gracious man.

And Dairy:

Sean Marcus. Runs Marcus Dairy. Crap on milk, got skoal?

On newspapers, TV and radio:

Bob Lape. Writes for Crain's Business where his business is food. On the original Eywitness news team. Definitely OG.

For books:

Eric Schlosser. Author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness. Besides a Filet-O-Fish and some dope he likes caraway liqueur.

Bring on the 4- Star Pastry Peoples:

Johnny Iuzzini. One of our bestest buddies. 4 star pastry chef of Jean Georges. Motorcycle nut. If you are the person who stole his KTM bike don’t let him find you.

Michael Laiskonis. 4-star pastry chef at Le Bernardin. Sweetheart. Fellow blogger. When’s your wife Heather coming in for a skoal?

For our random skoal category:
The woman who published the Anarchist Cookbook:

Carole Stuart, head of Barricade Books (which published the Anarchist Cookbook in 1970).

and the woman who brings the anarchy:

Anne Burrell. Food Network superstar, chef, woman about town, berserker skoaler.