Born in Cal USA, been living in Europe. What an education! Any type of dried beans - love to experiment. Love hot peppers (hubby does not like them!). Love BBQ and do a lot of slow cooking. Vacation in France so I have a strong French influence, but the Moroccan way of cooking is fun too. I will try anything once. We used to love to dig for clams and make fish stew. No clams here but I get them when in France. Cooked a traditional Sudanese dinner once for a Sudanese family - it was good! My devils food cake or angel food cake will make anyone happy and my BBQ dinners are pretty good. Love cooking Mexican for large groups. Made a traditional Dutch fruit cake about 30 years ago. Could not cut it, had to soak it in fruit juice to be able to eat it (the day after) Never did figure out what I did wrong. Have not repeated the error though.