Interviews

Every weekend, as hordes of hungry diners wait in line for brunch, Extra Crispy will hit the pavement, visiting a neighborhood’s most popular spots and talking to people who love the meal as much as we do. For this installment of Street Meet, Extra Crispy went to Flushing, Queens.

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Food styling is one of those jobs that sounds like a dream. And after sustaining a strain injury, Katie Christ made that dream come true in a serious way. Christ has been the culinary producer on Top Chef and worked for magazines like Bon Appetit and Cooking Light and companies like McDonald's and Coca-Cola. She also competed in the Food Network Challenge's first-ever competition for food stylists and won.

Every weekend, as hordes of hungry diners wait in line for brunch, Extra Crispy will hit the pavement, visiting a neighborhood’s most popular spots and talking to people who love the meal as much as we do. For this installment of Street Meet, Extra Crispy went to Manhattan’s West Village.

There is an entire room in Gus Lopez’s home in Seattle, Washington, that is devoted to his Star Wars cereal collection, but Lopez still doesn’t have enough space. “The room holds maybe two to three hundred of them,” Lopez said, but he has about 1,700 boxes of Star Wars cereal in total.