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Composer Graham Reynolds: What’s in Your Fridge Friday?
The composer and multi-instrumentalist behind Golden Arm Trio creates music for everything from theater productions and symphonies to full-length films, including Richard Linklater’s “A Scanner Darkly.” He recently teamed up with fellow composer and musician Peter Stopchinski to form the Golden Hornet Project, which performs Sunday night at Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar downtown. (Last month, Reynolds and Stopchinski won best symphony concert at the Austin Critics’ Table Awards.)
Ahead of the Sunday night show, Graham, who has been a vegan for 20 years, showed off the contents of his fridge.
What three things are always in your fridge? Hm, lots of things. I’m vegan, so obviously that has a major impact on what I buy. Most of the time I have some sort of fresh Asian noodles from the Korean or Vietnamese grocery store (I love noodles more than anything and fresh Asian noodles are much less likely to have eggs than fresh Italian pasta).j And fresh herbs, cilantro and parsley in particular, set in water like cut flowers to preserve them. And lots of basics (soy milk, margarine, lemons, limes, garlic, homemade strawberry jam from the farmer’s market, etc.).
What’s your favorite condiment? Tough one. I like condiments; the intensity of the flavors has always appealed to me. It’s probably a fight between chili pastes/sauces and mustards. I guess I’ll go with mustard because I have so many of them and use them more as a condiment than as an ingredient, while chili pastes (I have quite a few of these as well) I probably use equally both ways.
What’s the first thing you pull out of the fridge in the morning? This is boring, but usually water. We keep two Brita containers, one in the fridge and one on the counter, because I like the water cold and Shawn doesn’t.
Fridge photo by Graham Reynolds.
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