Who do you typically share meals with?
QUINN: My husband, Simon and my two children Wylie and Oscar. We have a tight knit friend group including our neighbors, Nick and Gary, who we share meals with almost every week. My parents come to visit us almost every other weekend. So I would say, we host quite a bit!
AMY: I live alone at the moment, so daily, I cook for myself and find joy in that. As a new member of the Hudson community, I’m slowly making friends and cooking for them. I also have friends who come from the city and enjoy having meals and sharing the abundance of the farms here with them.
If you could have a meal with any three people, someone you know/don’t know/alive/dead, who would they be?
QUINN: This is really hard… I am having a hard time choosing between 4 people so here they all are…Anthony Bourdain and Ina Gartin. I love how Anthony loved food, culture and just the way he spoke and wrote, I’d love to have a late night out with him in the back alleyways of a city I have never visited. Ina just seems like we’d have a great time cooking together and having a few cocktails while doing so. Alanis Morissette, she is a goddess and her album is such a soundtrack to so many parts of my life. Isabella Rossalini, because I just think she is such a character, her entire life is so fascinating. I LOVE her performance art. Plus her instagram is the best thing right now.
AMY: My three choices would be… Julia Child, because her cooking has inspired me so much over the years and we share a love for France and French cooking.
Yoto Ottolenghi, also due to inspiration but his shear love of vegetables and taking them out of the norm.
My Grandmother Esther. She died when I was 17-long before I started my career or could be taken seriously as a cook. I was recently found and visited by a cousin (niece of hers) and she told me how much my grandmother loved to cook and break down complicated game animals. I wish we had an opportunity to talk and cook together as adults. I cherish the recipes she left behind even more, knowing this.
What does creating community mean to you?
QUINN: Creating a community to me, means to share with one another. To share resources, ideas, to have a village mentality when it comes to parenting as well. Surrounding each other with as many types of people, learning from each other, taking care of each other and helping one another.
AMY: Creating community is bringing people together and what better way than around food? Whether an extravagant meal in or out, working in a soup kitchen, feeding people in need…that’s what it means to me. Nourishment.