RoseLokoum

Location:

NYC

Best meal I ever ate:

Turkish tea, lentil soup and simit, eaten alone with a broken heart in a snow storm in a cold, little restaurant in Sultanahmet in 2001.

My current drink of choice:

Prosecco

I really wish I could:

Fly

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Never the same twice.

My favorite comfort food:

Bread, cheese, olives and any kind of salty cured meat; ice cream in a sugar cone; BBQ; super sour pickles; stuffed cabbage; cinnamon toast; toasted cheese; filet mignon with gorgonzola port sauce; creamed spinach; brisket and mashed potatoes, the shrimp soup from Flor de Mayo...

My most tattered cookbooks:

The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden; How to Bake by Nick Malgieri; Madhur Jaffrey's World of the East Vegetarian Cooking; Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison; The New Spanish Table by Anya Von Bremzen