The Professor

Location:

Northeast USA

Best meal I ever ate:

my Grandma's "derelye"

My current drink of choice:

good cabernet or homemade ale

I really wish I could:

travel back in time and enjoy a Ballantine India Pale Ale

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

either Peruvian Chili Pork Stew or Labda Pecsenye

My favorite comfort food:

noodles or macaroni with lightly browned butter and pot cheese

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Stage Left, New Brunswick NJ; The Palm, NY(East Side location); Irving's Deli, Livingston NJ; Mei Lai Wah Coffee Shop, Chinatown NY; Montgomery Inn, Cincinnatti OH; Langer's, Los Angeles

My most tattered cookbooks:

Joy Of Cooking (early 70's edition); How To Cook And Eat In Chinese; and my Dad's handwritten 200 page notebook of three generations of Hungarian family specialties