karystrance

Best meal I ever ate:

deep-fried soft-shell crab at Park Avenue Cafe in NYC.

My current drink of choice:

fruity Italians

I really wish I could:

eat at the French Laundry

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

beef tenderloin

My favorite comfort food:

mac & cheese with lardons or lobster

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Chanterelle (sadly gone); Esce; Japonica; Peter Luger's; Cucharamamma

My most tattered cookbooks:

Art of Simple Food; Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen; Bittman; Batali: Simple Italian Food; my mother's spiral notebooks