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Amanda Hesser

New York Times food reporter and ‘Food Diary’ columnist Amanda Hesser on favorite books, upcoming food trends, and very small sandwiches.

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Rosecrans Baldwin
TMN co-editor Rosecrans Baldwin lives in Paris, France. He founded The Morning News with Andrew Womack in 1999 and has been waking up early ever since. He currently writes the Letters from Paris column. His work has elsewhere appeared in The New York Times, New York, The Nation, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. His personal web site is useless. Every month he makes a new Muxtape. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out soon with Riverhead Books.
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DOB: 8 September 1971

Occupational titles:
Food reporter and food diary columnist

Favorite books: The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard; Pig Earth, John Berger.

Heroes: Jeffrey Steingarten

What makes you laugh: Larry Sanders

Next food-trend: Dover sole, croquettes, and crepes suzettes. We will go back to the sixties and start all over, moving from trend to trend in a continuous loop. And if not, perhaps it will be these tiny pressed sandwiches that are popping up everywhere.

Favorite city: Rome

Best sandwich in New York: (see above trend section) Chicken livers, arugula, and roasted tomato panino at ‘ino—best enjoyed with a glass of prosecco.

Charity worth giving to: The Neediest Cases

Music to eat to: The happy rhythm of friends talking

Five words that sound good: Would you like some champagne?
—Published May 23, 2002