Jasmine: I just love food, and I love writing about it. Also, I'm always curious as to what people are eating. If I'm watching a TV show and they go out to dinner, I want to know what they're ordering. I'm interested in that. I want to know where they go or if someone's a picky eater or not. Do they like to share or don't they? I think all of that is interesting and tells me something about a character and just builds on that. I tend to have even a lot more about food in my first drafts. Then I have to edit stuff out because I just find all of that endlessly fascinating when I'm writing characters and when I'm writing stories. A lot of times, I feel like that's ignored. Sometimes I'll be reading books and see them doing things from morning to night, and I think, did they stop to eat? Wouldn't you be hungry? [laughs] I'd be hungry.