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Best meal I ever ate:

1) My mother's "London Broil"; 2) my grandmother's "supper party lima beans"; 3) a perfect lunch at Chez Panisse c. 1990: 4) dinner at Mosca's in 1984

My current drink of choice:

Almond soda with lime ice

I really wish I could:

Find a decent New Orleans snowball in Los Angeles

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

4-meat chili "Oklahoma style"

My favorite comfort food:

Soup is good food

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

5. Odaesan, Koreatown LA (R.I.P.); 4. Jamil's, Tulsa; 3. Casamento's, New Orleans; 2. Angelo Brocato's, New Orleans; 1. Still looking

My most tattered cookbooks:

"The Original Jewish Cookbook" by Mildred Grosberg Bellin z"l (1908-2008)(aka "Grandma")