well what's your favorite dish oh for your question probably it's uh tough to decide between like some sort of a Chinese dish or something like pizza yeah yeah i understand that i like oriental cooking and uh pasta and i have the same problem uh um-hum Italian heritage so i definitely like pasta but i like Italian and the two don't mix though i've tried that that doesn't no no although you can make a sort of a Chinese pizza yeah that doesn't work very well either uh i don't know sort of dumb what kind of food would you have in a dinner party well it depends on what kind of people you got coming over so we'll leave it at that sure uh let me see what do you what you like to cook uh just everything or do you have specialties i'm i pretty much specialize i guess in uh Italian and Chinese um i'm a vegetarian yeah as uh Chinese gives me a lot of room to play with i've been i've been doing some stuff with um Middle Eastern lately you know cooking up dals and stuff which has been fun yeah um-hum um-hum yeah i um i i've been collecting recipes and modifying recipes for a long long time um-hum and uh i run a little direct mail business on the side and i finally put together a cookbook wow and uh i've got to i got to reformat it i i did it on my word processor and now i've got to redo the whole thing again and i'm trying to figure out a cheap way to a quick way to do it without having to retype it um-hum because uh it's it's all size about it's not it's not very big i mean it's like a hundred and five pages something like that um-hum but it's got lots of good recipes so i was thinking about trying to sell that on the side just for fun um-hum yeah yeah i usually um you know i get Usenet so i usually just uh look at the recipe groups in there uh for interesting things um-hum well see what else can we talk about food well what sort of cookbooks do you um do you usually use well usually hardly any at all anymore um i've i've gotten together sort of like basic recipes yeah um-hum and once you have those you can add to them or take away from them and come up with all kinds of different dishes that's true i i have several cookbooks uh Betty Crocker and New York Times and a couple of Japanese cookbooks a couple of Chinese cookbooks i even got a Filipino cookbook um um-hum hm they have a nice dish in there for a chicken dish i forgot the name of it but it takes a special kind of sausage and you can only get it at Filipino stores well that's interesting yeah and it's it's a it's a strange sort of it's sort of like a pepperoni um-hum but it's it has a much sharper flavor and it's uh it's almost like it has red dye in it or something when you cook it it bleeds and it colors the food hm it's pretty interesting but it's a real good chicken dish it's sort of like a chicken potpie in a way you have a crust on top and all that um-hum um-hum delicious though i love it do you yeah i pretty much i i guess i stick pretty much i got a couple of Moosewood books some yeah The Greens i find to be very handy yeah um other than that i mean i you know i got five or six others that i can i can look up for inspiration or something i don't know but uh yeah but yeah an idea yeah that's the way i am i generally get there and right i have a have an idea of what i wanna do i don't really know how to get started so i i look at something get me get me ah yeah well i'll add this to it and do this and turns out pretty good sometimes right um-hum yeah i find it's usually pretty useful to cook you know some number of recipes out of a book to get a flavor of the style yeah and then from that point you can pretty much improvise once you once you understand the spicing patterns and stuff like that yeah well i mean i mean that's yeah that's the fun of cooking improvising right absolutely if you're gonna sit there and just follow a recipe that's no fun um-hum you know i agree you know a monkey can do that um-hum i bet even my cats could do that no not this one she's dead to the world right now oh well well let's see i guess that's about it on food yeah okay all right good talking to you Brad take care bye nice talking to you bye