I eat a day.

So the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning, Okay?

So a few things sometimes when I first wake up in the morning, first thing I do is go pee like full transparency.

Second thing is, I wake up her my alarm on my phone, which means I'm scrolling through my phone.

I'm not weird about admitting it.

It happens.

You know, I don't eat first thing in the morning.

Typically, sometimes there's like they'll be like a rogue day where I wake up flipping, starving.

But that doesn't happen all the time.

In fact, it's extraordinarily where normally I'll have some green juice.

If I do have a green juice, it's like a cucumber celery.

Let us.

You know, it's one of those general ones.

I never understood the whole, like Onley celery thing like, why would you only drink celery juice when you could drink like celery?

Swiss chard Jalape o green apple lime juice, right?

I mean, I know that's just telling you about it.

So some of the green juice sometimes I'll just have like a grapefruit or an apple.

But I really don't get hungry until later into the day.

I am a tea drinker t all the way.

However, I like coffee when I'm traveling.

Is that I don't know.

I don't know what that is, but when I'm traveling, sign me up for coffee.

I was in Portugal for almost a month and I had coffee like every single day.

And it was so weird because I came back to us and I was like, It doesn't really make sense, but I love tea, all kinds of tea.

My favorite tea.

Earl Grey Splash of some kind of milk.

I really don't care.

And just a little less stevia.

Only guys like my dessert.

I could drink it all day.

In fact, I do drink it all day.

Also love herbal teas, Little marshmallow root, good for the bladder.

But then I'm right into my computer and doing whatever e mails.

If it's a series of recipes, I'm casting if it's, you know something for my book.

If it's photos I need to take, you know, I'm kind of doing that stuff first thing in the morning, I'd say around 10 o'clock 11 oclock.

I'm starting to kind of get a little bit hungry.

So that's when I headed to the fridge and just see, like, What is going on in there?

I love to cook, and also any opportunity to test a recipe.

I'm gonna take it So say, if God, you know, some pickles, tomatoes, romaine lettuce like I'm just the queen of just the Roman.

Some stuff together.

I love to use teas to actually make rice.

So I love rice, lentils, king Wow, things like that.

I love to take some ginger tea or some coconut tea and make some rice with the tea instead of water.

If you want to infuse flavor, that's a great way to do it.

You know, maybe stir fried broccoli and some green beans.

Have it with that rice.

And before you know it, you just have this, like delicious sort of tea tinged rice with a yummy stuff for a situation.

And I usually eat that around 11 and that's pretty good.

I love sauces off to make sauces, sauces or my heart.

Honestly, my middle name, it's sauce Sophia sauce row.

I kind of like that.

It's got a ring to it.

Saucy Sophia Row, even better.

Sometimes it's a little coconut.

Amino is a little grape seed.

Rice, wine, vinegar, ginger bam.

Love it.

Love.

A little bit of like, fish sauce situation.

A little bit of a tamari.

Love a Mirren.

I love anything saucy me.

So Dijon mustard multiplication.

It's amazing.

Love sauce eso That is my lunch anywhere from 11 to 12 almost every day.

I am really consistent with my eating.

Like, once I get into a groove with something that's kind of like the by, you know, I do try and find time to work out especially, you know, here we are still in the middle of a pandemic quarantine situation.

Ah, lot of it looks like me with a £20 kettle bell.

You want to know a killer workout?

I did one time, and I started doing this once a week.

Okay.

Okay.

Are you ready for this?

Okay, so basically, it goes every hour On the hour that you're awake, you do 100 squats, So if you're awake for 12 hours, you do the math.

That's 1200 squats, baby.

Your legs are gonna be burning.

You are gonna be a newborn Bambi for the next three days.

I mean, it works.

Seriously, try it.

So a lot of times I'm in my house.

I go out to the farmers market once a week, and I just grabbed my list of things that I need to test or need to work on.

Our videos, any to shoe or etcetera, typically have to take three different trains to get to my farmers market.

Because I live in an area of New York and Bed Stuy, East New York, of an area of New York that doesn't have a farmers market, which really bothers me.

Uh, so you know, food, equity, etcetera those things.

I care about separate conversation, but you should know we're working really hard to get a farmer's market a good, big GVC farmer's market in my neighborhood.

But until such time, I take three trains to get to the big farmers market in the city, and that's some exercise that's about 5000 steps.

I try my hardest to get 5 to 10,000 steps a day, even if that means I'm going outside with the masking, you know, working out that way.

You know, I used to travel a lot.

I used to be in a late at least once a month.

I do a big solo trip for Christmas every single year.

Last year took myself to Mexico by myself for three weeks.

It was incredible.

I did a whole road trip.

I drove all over Mexico.

It was amazing.

Oh, my favorite Food City.

Oh, my goodness, What is my favorite foods?

I love New Orleans.

It's probably one of my favorites.

Cities just in general in the United States.

What a great food city I love New Orleans.

Chicago is another incredible food city, just amazing.

Food City, Mexico.

Incredible food.

Country, Japan.

Also My grandmother was Japanese, so I can feel there is a cultural tie there for me.

Japan does no wrong for me.

Neither does Mexico.

Those air like me to faith countries.

However, however, I was in South Africa, I went to Botswana, Swazi for a little while.

Wow, also incredible food happening in Africa.

So honestly, just just take me anywhere and I will find the great food like it's It's my job.

I'm pretty easy to please.

I don't do any dairy.

I don't eat any dairy or any land animals.

However, if I'm traveling, say I'm in Mexico and all that's available are dairy and land animals.

Then I'm eating them.

That's it.

Like I don't not.

Everybody in the world has the luxury of the privilege to be able to choose what they eat.

So I'm extremely flexible.

If I can go somewhere and I can get just simple fish or just simple salad, that's what I'm opting for.

However, if all there is is popcorn and French fries, then we're having popcorn in french fries and we're extremely happy about it.

I am an insane snacker.

It's insane.

I have a snacking issue.

In fact, my name might be Sofia.

The saucy snacking Well, whether it's a smoothie.

Ah, flipping Aussie able get out of town if you even say Aussie.

If I even see the color purple, it's a problem.

I need a Nossa evil.

I actually needed no stable right now.

In fact, after I finish this, I'm getting all sable, so I just want you to know that my favorite snack is a bowl off the buttery ist.

I'm talking, but I'm talking.

If you put the stick of butter on the popcorn, I'm gonna need another stick so pre Cove it.

What I would do was I would take myself to go see a movie, but I wasn't even interested in just so that I could have two bowls of buttered popcorn.

I just need you to understand my extraordinary love for popcorn.

It's it really exceeds me.

You know what I'm saying?

Like my love for popcorn will exist even after I no longer dio you understand, it's extraordinary if it's not popcorn just covered in butter.

It's just plates upon pleats of french fries.

I don't care if they're sweet potato.

I don't care of the regular potato.

I don't care if there's an Keeney.

I don't care if it's squash.

If it is a strip of something that has been fried in oil, you could sign me up.

You know what I'm saying?

People.

Some people like the pizza or the taco.

That's not I just want the fried, the fried potato sticks, something.

That's what I need.

That's my cheat meal.

That's what works for me.

That's what I'm interested in.

You know, I don't really do cheat meals.

I don't really like that term because then it proposes that everything else that I was extremely good.

I don't really believe food is intrinsically good or bad.

So on the weekends I'm eating a lot of what?

A meeting during the week.

I'm very consistent.

I cook all the time.

And so because I cook all the time, I think I'm always just sort of like they just by proxy, just eating a lot.

You know what?

I'm not crazy about the Onley food that I can think of that I just could really easily say I hate, um Lima beans.

That's about it.

Every other thing I could get down with.

Even though I don't lay in animals even though I don't eat dairy, I can confirm that a burger is delicious.

Same with cheese.

I don't eat cheese, but man cheeses tasty.

I am not someone who gets angry.

I don't get angry.

Sometimes.

What will happen is I'll look at my phone or I'll see what time it is.

And my brain will be like Yo, yo yo So so So so so girl, you need to eat.

You haven't eaten since 10 o'clock.

I'm not one of those people that could go too long because I'm always very mindful of time.

I think I'm mindful of time.

I think that's the chef and me because listen Ah, lot of people will tell you, You know, time is rial.

Time is illusion.

Some time is really a f when you're baking a cake.

OK, so don't tell me.

Time is really because when you're cooking, time is very real.

I usually eat dinner 6 p.m. To 8 p.m. That's typically my take out.

Typically do the take out.

I love to get the take out Rahman.

Another thing.

There's a restaurant in my neighborhood called Sarah Geena, and they do the most.

They just do vegetables, right?

They just do it right.

Also let a tag in east is another restaurant in my neighborhood branch restaurant.

They just do that.

They just do it right.

I'm really simple.

Just like us.

Like a most The time is just all veggies.

But if I'm eating it out, I'm probably just gonna have, like, fish and a salad, right?

Like it's so boring.

I had It's so boring, but I just have to be mindful of palate fatigue.

I cook a lot.

You're making a lot of different stuff.

All the time.

You really just want simple like I really just want a regula lemon salt, pepper, olive oil.

It's a party like nothing else.

And then there are times you guys where I e an entire pint container of olives.

It's true.

Onley an entire pint container of olives at dinner time, and then I'll need an entire box of crackers if I fully admit how not healthy that IHS.

But I also admit that that's just the way that it goes.

I say about once a month.

There's a day where I just eat an entire pint container of green olives and crackers and popcorn.

So my beverage of choice at dinner.

If it's wine, it's a Beaujolais again, May.

Something's something from the Lower Valley, something like that.

Not to sound like to too snobbish, but that's just my That's just my preference.

I love younger sort of wine, but a lot of times at dinner I'm just drinking water.

I know that's boring.

A.

Sometimes I do.

We're giant T at night, actually, shouldn't say China tea, because that's just like saying TT.

But sometimes I do like a black t a chai moment, and you know, Just give me a little caffeine, because I know that I'm gonna be working like, say, I'm writing recipes all night or say I have something sort of, um, activist driven that I need to work on after dinner.

I'll have a chae.

Oh, milk.

Plenty.

Plenty of black tea vibes like, good amount of caffeine.

And I'll stay up until 12 or one until I get what I need to get finished.

Finished.

If I want to do an after dinner tea and I don't want to stay up, then I'll make it a herbal tea.

So something with marshmallow moved or something with little to recur.

Ginger.

Just a little sleepy time.

Lavender tea also is really nice, my favorite foods to make our foods that require a tender palette.

I know a lot of times in America it's all about like Boom and Bam and wow and spices and salt and savory and in your pace, you know, And I love that.

I think that's so awesome, but for me, my favorite sort of foods to make our foods that honor the subtleties of a palette.

So I love making things that really require tenderness and really require a lot of subtle, nuanced flavor.

I love creating soups and broths and things that take a lot of times.

I love sourcing, really great quality ingredients.