Robert Sherer is a native Seattleite who recently returned after spending 15 years living mostly in New York, with a brief spell in Los Angeles, and a briefer spell backpacking. A soccer obsessive, he attended the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, has Sounders season tickets, and—though he’s not a very good player—captained a co-ed recreational soccer team in Brooklyn named Zidane’s Forehead. He loves ramen that’s not the instant kind, makes his own bagels, and used to have a blog about having lunch with his Grandma.