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Okay, for real.

I am getting stupid spoiled.

I have a friend who comes out to visit me every month or two. He still hasn’t seen a damn thing of DC, as we either get godawful sick or…he spends the entire time spoiling me.

This time he cleaned up and cooked and organized things so that I could study my French (which I can now speak somewhat passibly, if very simply). Though when he comes out, I make it a point to cook for him anything I can come up with. He likes to eat, I like to cook.

But this time he stumped me. He asked me, “What do you like to eat?”

Which, in ten years of cooking for everyone under the sun, is a question very rarely asked of me. I spent a week trying to figure out how to answer that.

I tend not to eat meals. I mean, I cook meals, but when I cook it’s always for someone else. When left to my own devices, I eat things. I eat, well, ingredients. Cans of olives for dinner. Crackers for lunch. A boiled egg. I have never sat down and made myself a meal. I have always made it for someone else and I just happen to be there to eat it, too.

So when asked this, it took me a good week to be like “You know, I really like bagels and lox.”

I am currently eating one of the best bagels I have ever had in my life. This motherfucker showed up with malt powder and kosher salt in his bag, I swear to god.

He, by the way, is no where near Jewish. He lives in Texas at the moment. He made bagels for an israeli girl who grew up in New York. That right there takes some fucking balls, let me tell you.

These bagels are…fan…fucking…tastic.

Maybe I’ll just keep him here one time. Kidnap him. Tada.