have a house outside of Aix-en-Provence and ride my bike to the market each day.
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
Fish en Papillote or Bourride.
My favorite comfort food:
Coffee & Tea. Fresh baked crusty bread. Asian noodle soups. A big salad. Lobster roll/fried clams.
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
Ubuntu *RIP* (Napa), Lonesome Dove Bistro (Ft. Worth), Little Branch (NYC), Intelligentsia Coffee (Chicago), Eastern Standard/Island Creek Oyster Bar (Boston)
My most tattered cookbooks:
"Bistro Cooking" & "The Provence Cookbook" Patricia Wells, "How to cook everything vegetarian" Mark Bittman