Excerpt from:

Above all, have a good time.
By Bill Carroll, Donna Covrett, Lora Arduser, Craig Bida and Anne Mitchell

Full article can be found here.

Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

As food writers we watch what's being dished up. And like debate club geeks who took a wrong turn in the hall and ended up in home economics class, we sincerely love to talk it, smell it, hug it, walk it, lick it and roll in it. Despite the fickle finger of food fads, for us it's always the small moments—a whiff of this, a sip of that, a little juice dribbling down our chin, and life itself becomes the meal shared.

Lora Arduser Has A Routine
I am very ritualized in my food habits. Being diabetic involves a lot of pomp and circumstance around mealtime—timing the food and insulin shot, figuring out how much to eat, and the sacrament of shooting up. I guess that's why some of my favorite dining experiences involve elements of comfort and routine.