cfwcaro

Real Name:

Caroline

Location:

New York, NY

Blog:

http://chew-and-swallow.blogspot.com/, http://gastrognomica.blogspot.com/

Best meal I ever ate:

Uni with mein Freund - the Uni Spoon may be the most expensive spoonful you've ever eaten ($16 a pop), but it's also the most delicious. Oldies: with my parents at OM in Harvard Square (truffled steak and eggs!) and with my sister at Soif in Santa Cruz, CA (see blog).

My current drink of choice:

A proper Manhattan.

I really wish I could:

make a living writing about food, bone a chicken in a minute flat, afford truffles, eat hollondaise every day without destroying my health.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Homemade fresh mint chip ice cream

My favorite comfort food:

Roasted sweet potatoes

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Craigie Street Bistrot (Cambridge, MA), Oleana (Cambridge, MA), Le Voltaire (Paris, France), Cafe Zuni (San Francisco, CA), The Garden (Cambridge, MA)

My most tattered cookbooks:

The Joy of Cooking, Barefoot Contessa, Fusion Food Cookbook, Cooking for Mr Latte (not a cookbook per se but the recipes are GENIUS), Tender at the Bone and anything else by Ruth Reichl (ditto), Dean and Deluca Cookbook, How to Cook Everything