Rosemarie's Favorites 

Movies: Strictly Ballroom, Philadelphia Story (with Katharine Hepburn), Some Like It Hot

TV Shows: Top Chef, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives

Music: Everything from classical to pop to folk, from jazz to country to flamenco. Here are just a few: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, James Taylor, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Fountains of Wayne, Moby, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Monteverdi.

Authors: Jane Austen (especially Pride and Prejudice), Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield,  J.K Rowling (Harry Potter, one through seven), William Faulkner, Margaret Atwood (The Robber Bride, The Edible Woman), Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient), Eudora Welty.

Times of the Year: Springtime. when all things green spring out of the ground and trees and everything is blossoming after the long cold winter! The first day of school in September is still very exciting! Autumn--I especially enjoy the fall colors while hiking in upstate NY.

Food: Everything, especially Asian and Italian food. There is no cuisine I don't enjoy! I do especially love a rack of lamb.

Desserts: Anything chocolate, especially a chocolate souffle!

Beverage: Herbal tea, margarita, gin and tonic.

Colors: Blue and green

Vacation Spots: Italy, The Greek Islands, Cape Hatteras, NC, Acadia National Park, Maine, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Pastimes: Gardening, swimming, biking, hiking, cooking, playing piano

 College

Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ

B.A., English

Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University

Master of Education

School of Communications, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers University, Master of Library Science

Grew Up

New Jersey

Family

Jim's Favorites

Movies: Breaking Away, The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz, and mostly independent current films.

TV Shows: Not a big tv watcher. Some reality tv, Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, and Grey's Anatomy

Music: Of the 6,000-plus songs on my iPod, artists range from Amy Winehouse to Moby to Woody Guthrie and anything and everything in-between.

Sports:  I like all games and sports, especially skiing, surfboarding, bike riding. On and off you can find me at the gym. Love to do more surfing and mountain biking. Though not an avid sports spectator, I occasionally follow college football and professional baseball.

Times of the Year: Just after the first snowfall that covers the ground, I love the freshness in the air, the silence that it brings, the calm and peace associated with the stillness, and shadows created by the bare trees from the streetlights. I also like the first day the birds return in the early spring--it is a sign of rebirth.

Food: Like Rosemarie, I enjoy everything. There is no cuisine I don't enjoy or won't try! It doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to be authentic.

Desserts: Never met one I did not like. Dessert is the most important meal of the day. My homemade rice pudding and my sour cream ice cream on warm apple pie might be my favorites, right up there with bread pudding.

Beverage: Diet coke, water, orange juice, and to relax, a full-bodied beer

Colors: Blue, blue, blue...and maybe a little orange

Vacation Spots: Montreal (for the Jazz Festival), the islands of Greece,  the Swiss Alps, scuba diving in Belize

Pastimes: Cooking is not so much a pastime but a passion, and I cook to relax. I also enjoy bike riding, not only because I like the freedom of it, but I also do it to raise money for charity. I love traveling because it allows me to appreciate what I have and continue to learn.

College

Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

B.S., Environmental Science

Grew Up

West Virginia, New Jersey

Family

Four brothers, three who live in NJ. One brother lives in Chicago, IL with his wife and two daughters. Nine nieces between the ages of 4 and 21, and two nephews between the ages of 4 and 6 can't wait for a new cousin to cuddle with! Dad lives in Naples, Florida and is looking forward to another grandchild to take to Disney World!