AS OF TODAY, ANYWAY . .

Thanks to Wilco and The Unlimited Mood for My Fifty Favorite Foods, a welcome distraction from a heavy workday ...

1. favorite main entree: Gop-dol bi-bim-bap.

2. favorite salad: A fresh, just-made-from-real-ingredients caesar salad, sans anchovies (at least the kind I can see whole, just laid out on top of my salad like "hi, i'm a dead anchovy.").

3. favorite soup: The curry-corn soup at Xaviar's at Piermont.

4. favorite appetizer: Seared tuna with wasabi.

5. favorite dessert: Vanilla bean creme brulee, or hot pecan pie with vanilla ice cream.

6. favorite fruit: Watermelon.

7. favorite vegetable: Asparagus.

8. favorite sashimi: I don't normally enjoy sashimi, but the local tuna from Sushi Village, in Whistler, B.C. really rocked my world.

9. favorite sushi roll: The S.A.S.S. roll from Sushi Village, in Whistler, B.C.

10. favorite soda beverage: Pineapple Fanta.

11. favorite non-alcoholic beverage: Room-temperature water.

12. favorite alcoholic shot: Absolut Citron.

13. favorite alcoholic drink: Black Russian, with Grey Goose vodka.

14. favorite cake: Carrot cake, or my 29th birthday cake that JKA picked up from Riviera Bakehouse, in Ardsley.

15. favorite pie: Warm pecan pie.

16. favorite ice cream: Coffee, or C's homemade ginger snap ice cream.

17. favorite milkshake: Broadway Shake from Tom's Restaurant (a/k/a Tom's Diner), on 113th Street and Broadway.

18. favorite cut of beef: Filet mignon.

19. favorite cuisine: Korean.

20. favorite part of chicken: Whatever part has the dark meat on it.

21. favorite fried food: Fried green tea ice cream, or a beignet.

22. favorite cookie: My cranberry-chocolate-toffee-oatmeal cookies.

23. favorite indian curry: Does chicken makhni count?

24. favorite gum: Eek, I don't chew gum.

25. favorite candy: Eek, I don't eat candy, but I'll take a dark chocolate nonpareil or a dark chocolate truffle once in a while.

26. favorite crepe: With bananas and chocolate sauce.

27. favorite sandwich: Chicken salad, bacon, lettuce and tomato on a half a hero from Hamilton Deli, on 116th Street and Amsterdam.

28. favorite pizza: Any NYC street-corner pizzeria pizza, plain, with extra-crispy thin crust.

29. favorite mexican dish: Fish taco, or carnitas burrito, with hot sauce and extra guacamole.

30. favorite vietnamese dish: Thit Xao Xa Ot = sauteed sliced pork with tri-color bell pepper and onion in lemon grass and chili sauce.

31. favorite korean dish: Kimchi jigae.

32. favorite chinese dish: Moo-shu pork.

33. favorite filipino dish: Embutido, or the mini eggrolls that Mrs. C makes.

34. favorite southern food: Collard greens, or beignets.

35. favorite instant noodles brand: Shin-ramen.

36. favorite juice: I don't normally like juice, but I'll imbibe cranberry juice for my health, if you know what I'm sayin' ...

37. favorite snack food: Potato chips. Or jalapeno Monterey Jack cheese and wheat crackers.

38. favorite fish: I'm a sucker for good ol' salmon. And do scallops count? Because I sure do like scallops.

39. favorite cereal: Special-K.

40. favorite pho: Pho suon nuong = rice noodles in a beef-based soup, with a grilled pork chop on the side.

41. favorite breakfast food: Eggs, especially poached. And sausage, especially linked.

42. favorite french food: Beef Wellington, a/k/a boeuf en croute, especially at One if By Land, Two if By Sea, on Barrow Street.

43. favorite mcdonalds food: Big Mac.

44. favorite pasta dish: Linguine with white clam sauce. Or penne a la vodka. Or fettucine alfredo. Or lasagna bolognese. Or Soy's mandarin-chicken-watercress-farfalle salad.

45. favorite bread: NHF's communion loaf, obtained from some almighty supermarket bakery near Yorktown. Once de-blessed, it's soooo good.

46. favorite tea: Chamomile, with milk and sugar, or jasmine, plain.

47. favorite 7-11 slurpee flavor: I can't stand Slurpees.

48. favorite hershey's kiss: With almonds.

49. favorite flavor of m&m's: With peanuts.

50. favorite candy bar: I don't normally eat or enjoy candy bars, but when the craving strikes, I can't resist a mini-Snickers bar.