Fred McGriff

Best meal I ever ate:

Mom's chicken tortilla soup

My current drink of choice:

Bloody Mary, extra hot, with a slab of bacon in lieu of the celery

I really wish I could:

appreciate offals more

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

never the same thing twice

My favorite comfort food:

slow cooked pork shoulder

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Fruition (Denver), Q Grill (Mendoza), The Flying Fish Grill (Carmel), Modern Apizza (New Haven), Kalapaki Beach Hut (Kauai)

My most tattered cookbooks:

again, my mom's tortilla soup recipe and a divine, secret recipe for La Roomba's pebre written on a napkin by the bartender