Black beans, rice, shredded chicken cooked over a wood fire, and salsa in a Mayan style house (more like shack- but that doesn't seem the right word) along a small road in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
My current drink of choice:
anything but Argentine wine
I really wish I could:
Eat pasta every day for the rest of my life
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
A salad with ingredients that wow everyone and bring homemade dressing in a jar finnish right before serving
My favorite comfort food:
Pasta with a garlic, hot red pepper, olive oil, tomatoes, dried oregano and flat leaf italian parsely spinkled on top with some great cheese on top
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
Cheese Board Pizza (Berkeley, CA), Ajunta (Berkeley), Opa (Rome), Blue Ribbon Sushi (NYC), Fonda del Refugio (Mexico City, DF)
My most tattered cookbooks:
Trattoria Paticia Wells, Vegetables Alice Waters, The Minimalist Cooks at Home, Fannie Farmer Cookbook, Joy of Cooking
