I’m Gabrielle, college sophomore, and daughter of the wonderful Heide Lang. Food has been my biggest passion from a very young age – as a toddler I would tremble when Mom and Dad brought home pizza, and I would keep eating hot salsa despite the tears running down my cheeks. I’ve matured a little in the past fifteen or so years, but I’ve really just transferred my enthusiasm to more acceptable nineteen-year-old expression styles.

When I’m not doing homework, I’m almost certainly cooking or eating something. And almost everything I know about cooking I learned from my mom, and refined through cooking contests with Isabella, my 14-year old sister. I’m only nineteen, so I have less to say about how food, for example, greatly affected my marriage, but I, like my mom (and the rest of my family) am willing to go to extreme lengths for food. My parents didn’t stop their culinary adventures when my sisters and I were born. In recent years, we took a three hour detour to Arcachon, France just to sample the oysters from the famed oyster shacks, and more recently we ate two dinners – one at 3:00 and one at 7:00 – our last night in Nashville so we could stuff ourselves silly at two famed local establishments.

Things I Love

Places

New York City
Nashville
New Orleans
Chestertown, Maryland
Normandy, France

Assorted Inspiration

Rebecca Thuss
Amy Atlas
Radley London
Colour Lovers
NYChildren
Still*Life~Style

Music

Ingrid Michaelson
Dixie Chicks
Carla Bruni
Coeur de Pirate
Edith Piaf
Eva Cassidy
Regina Spektor
Nickel Creek
The Once Soundtrack

If you have any questions, or want to say hi, I can be reached at gabrielle {at} figcookingschool.com