K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen: it was around St. Patrick's Day, 1996, dined in the upstairs dining room, I don't recall everything now, but there was a rabbit (sausage?) dish with mustard (?), fried parsley, mashed potatoes (?), blast, the memory isn't serving. There were other dishes as well. I don't know that I would find the meal equally outstanding now, but it was my introduction to finer dining, and I was (and am) a big Prudhomme fan (his Louisiana Kitchen cookbook was my first), so going to his restaurant was a thrill, and it's hard to beat New Orleans for ambience.
My current drink of choice:
Coffee with cream and sugar
I really wish I could:
Cook more often while being a grad student
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
Cajun turtle soup from Paul Prudhomme
My favorite comfort food:
My mom's beef stew
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
Jaleo (DC/MD/VA); Zingerman's (Ann Arbor MI); Five Guys (DC/MD/VA); my folks' place in Michigan (i.e., home cooking); Café Bonaparte (Georgetown, DC, for their dessert crêpes)
My most tattered cookbooks:
Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen; Patricia Wells' Simply French; Penelope Casas' ¡Delicioso!; Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything; Claudia Roden's A Book of Middle Eastern Food; Bruce Healy and Paul Bugat's The Art of the Cake
