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I do too. As a general rule, I like fruit on its own. I will combine strawberries with yogurt or cream (less often peaches, too), but for me, fruit is perfect on its own.

I can enjoy an apple cider (I've never tried hard cider, but sparkling is nice). In our family, thanks to my medieval obsessions, Hypocras is the standard hot non-chocolate drink.

It took me a long, long time to like pizza: growing up, we never ate it. The first time I tried it was at age 8 at a birthday party, and to me it was gloopy, sloppy, ugly and just yucky. Many years later, probably college age, I came around to it, as people around me were eating it, and I was joining in. Same story with…

I'm a problem during the holidays: I don't like eggnog at all, and I don't like shellfish, which is basically the seafood my lovely sister-in-law makes for the Feast of Seven Fishes - she has since yielded and made one of the fishes sole/flounder, and I'll eat that. But not eggnog. Egg cream on the other hand, is a treat…

I like a nice balance, and it's one of the things I strive for in my own cooking/baking efforts. A touch of acid (lemon, lime, vinegar, wine), a bit of spice, and a bit of sweet is, for me, a good collection of tastes to aim for. When I toss a salad dressing together, it's usually some kind of mustard vinagrette.

This afternoon, I had just such a dressing of simple white balsamic vinegar and bit of mustard on a salad of pea shoots, bean sprouts, flavor bomb tomatoes, and a whole bunch of tiny lettuces harvested from my thriving little new Aerogarden.

I am also one of the genetically cilantro-challenged.

I like a good salad for a meal, too. When have it on the side, I usually have it at the end of the main meal, but that's because it was how our Spanish father raised us. I don't know if they still carry on the habit in France and Spain, but in our experience, there the salad's eaten after the main meal as a kind of a…

I like eating out too: among other pleasures, it's a great way to "visit" other countries through their food. We're New Yorkers, and my ex-boyfriend and I made a project of trying out a different cuisine once a month. We were together for more than five years and broke up before we went through our options.

I'm so sorry about your conditions; I'm lucky not to have any that I know of; but I have family and friends who do, including apple/mango allergies and celiac disease, so caution in serving is important. It's instructive to see how often wheat products and apple sneak their way into things.

I'm an inveterate label-reader: it started when our mom entered the hospital and required a drastic change of diet, mostly reduction in salt. We went to the grocery store, and, if we normally ate it and it had a label, we read it. If we didn't like how it reflected on the new eating habits entering our household, we left…

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Cherries have always been top of my favorite fruits list; partly because you have to wait for summer to really enjoy them. My Spanish father's favorite fruit was cherimoya. We actually had the chance to try them during a trip to Spain. They taste kind of like a sweet pear; the texture is a little more delicate. The black…

And with a slight preference for peaches, I'm happy with either.

I like raw carrots better than cooked carrots, and though I'll take a raw carrot pretty much any way I can get it, yes, the regular carrots are definitely the best. My sibs and I had a weird way of eating them: we gnawed around the outer layers until the inner section was left. Then we'd nibble that down. It took a long…

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I really like blood oranges, but in Brooklyn, at least, their season is short. A couple of years ago, a theater friend bought me some lovely blood oranges in thanks for some work I did for her. It was a very lovely thing to do.

Oh, you made me think of this little scene from one of my favorite movies, "Lilies of the Field" (set up: Sidney Poitier has been corralled into working for a small group of nuns in the middle of nowhere. They have no money or food and he is HUNGRY): https://youtube.com/watch?v=tKJvEbi4GdU Our dad was able peel almost…

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I like the fruit, but not the juice.

I also generally like fruit on its own more than poached/baked/stuffed/popped into other things. And I do like fresh strawberries. For me, also, fruit is sweet enough (most fruit is) that it doesn't need any help from honey or sugar. But. Today I had a dying banana and some strawberries on their last legs. I threw them…

My pleasure! I hope you enjoy it!

I like soup now more than I used to: it started when I had to take over the kitchen for my parents after they got sick. With some hubris and ambition, I decided to make chicken soup from scratch. First time around, it was a whole-day affair, but it was kind of exciting. Each time, things got a little better; it taught me a…

I was in Italy last August and September (so glad I did it!), and the gelato was irresistable.

And, see, pepperoni and chorizo are about the only two types of sausage I have a taste for (it must be the emphasis on spices); and I willingly eat pepperoni on pizza.

Me too ... though I can take or leave the bacon (blasphemy, I know).

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