Great idea biondanonima! And glad you liked Exit 4! Amazing food and so many choices - that place is dangerous! (In a good way!)
I’m a Yonkers native and lived in Northern Westchester from the age of 15. I went to college in Geneseo (near Rochester - love those garbage plates!) and returned home to finish grad school and then to try my hand at teaching in the NYC Dept of Ed. (Only the strong survive!) 
I began frequenting Chowhound as a newlywed, living in our one bedroom apartment in Pleasantville in 2005, pouring over restaurant recs and interesting meal ideas. Three boys and 12 years later, I’m living in Chappaqua (we loved Pville, but they don’t have bussing) in what I like to call our sweet little frat house. I found HO through @ieatalotoficecream - who was kind enough to message me and let me in on where all the wonderful hounds went when Chowhound became a shell of its former self.
I love cooking at home (If I wasn’t teaching, I’d love to be cooking all day!) and gear toward meals that will please my brood of hungry men - lots of meat and fresh veggies in my recipes. I love to bake and even dabble in cake designing. My crowning achievement (which I will never be able to duplicate again!) was a gigantic cake replica of the Titanic for my oldest son’s 4th birthday! (His request - yes, definitely strange that a little boy would be that into historical, ill-fated sea vessels!)
I adore ethnic restaurants - especially those rare hole-in-the-wall finds. If it’s a yummy dive, I’m there. I also have an incurable sweet tooth. Cholados (the snowcone-fruit salad hybrid treat from Colombia) are a current obsession, and it’s been fun discovering which Colombian bakery/restaurant makes the tastiest one. But I’d never rule out a yummy chain either; I have been known on occasion to drive from Chappaqua to Stamford on a whim for an Orange Julius. (My boys are all for it!)
