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Best meal I ever ate:
arancini from a train-station vendor in Palermo on my birthday
My current drink of choice:
hot buttered rum
I really wish I could:
eat more, weigh less
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
Claudia Roden's Syrian pasta with yogurt and fried onions
My favorite comfort food:
peanut butter from the jar
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
in Boston back in the day: Neptune Oyster, Taranta, Oleana, Daily Catch, o ya; in Denver now: Euclid Hall, Lao Wang Noodle House, Beatrice & Woodsley, The Squeaky Bean, Panzano
My most tattered cookbooks:
Lettuce in Your Kitchen, Chris Schlesinger; Tapas, Penelope Casas; The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, Claudia Roden
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