Multicourse at Le Bec Fin, Philadelphia, in the late '80s
My current drink of choice:
Beer, typically a Colorado micro
I really wish I could:
make cheese. I'll get to it.
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
Gumbo! Lots of andouille sausage
My favorite comfort food:
Again, gumbo
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
Six89 (local/Western Colo.), Domo (Denver), Il Mulino (NYC), Carmen's (Chicago), Le Bec Fin (national)
My most tattered cookbooks:
Joy of Cooking taught me the basics. Otherwise, I typically Google recipes I want, and adapt them to taste: more efficient than thumbing through cookbooks