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Best meal I ever ate:

Geez, only one? So many tying experiences! Duck Breast with Blackberries, and Potato Pave and sauteed fresh spinach, Bistro V's

My current drink of choice:

My husband's well-crafted Margarita--no mix, just the right liqueurs, higher quality tequila, fresh-squeezed juice from little Mexican limes.

My favorite comfort food:

chicken roasted with sweet potato quarters, shallots, onion, carrots; rubbed with olive oil and sprinkled with kosher salt & fresh ground pepper, a bit of fenugreek, garlic powder

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Bistro V's in Sebastopol, CA; Alfama, NYC;

My most tattered cookbooks:

Food and Wine Magazine's Best of 1999 recipe compilation ; Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook; Provencal Light; Alice Water's The Art of Simple Food--rapidly on its way to tatterdom.