Ethical Explorations Writers Tina and Ben Schwarz explain the all-powerful Babe influence. Cooking and shopping for food, she admits, ranked right up there, along with working and laundry. This evening, as they prepare to leave L.A., Tina has cooked for me in the Santa Monica apartment she shares with her husband, Ben Schwarz, 36.
Cooking is a great substitute for writing.
Let us be clear here. But for our purposes, we will take her at her word. In New York City, we lived downtown. I went to the Union Square Market for produce, to the Jefferson Market for shellfish, Vesuvio's for bread, Murray's for cheese, Balducci's for pine nuts. So we changed our ways.