sf toronto

Location:

West Coast

Best meal I ever ate:

Brick oven, thin-crust, piping hot pizza at a hole-in-the-wall joint in Testaccio (Rome)

My current drink of choice:

green tea

I really wish I could:

Take a month off, linger over tea in the morning, spend the afternoons wandering through galleries and markets, cooking for friends in the evenings.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

It's a sad state of affairs, but there has been a drought on the dinner party front.

My favorite comfort food:

dark chocolate and hot chocolate (not necessarily at the same time); club sandwich, french fries and a diet coke in whatever hotel I'm staying in after a long haul flight

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Always changing, but if I had to choose right now, they would be (in no particular order): Yew (Four Seasons in Vancouver); Blue Water Cafe in Vancouver (for the raw bar); Octopus Garden in Vancouver (for the exquisite sushi and Chef Sada's joviality); Mandala Tea Room in Scottsdale (for gorgeous, clean, simple vegan food); Rinconcito Salvadorean in Vancouver (for comfort in the form of a soft tortilla).

My most tattered cookbooks:

recipes I've printed off this site and others