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Real Name:

Alain

Location:

coastal NH

Best meal I ever ate:

A tie for two meals. The first was a platter of Belon oysters, fresh sea urchin, and boudin blanc, with a bottle of Krug 1990 at Les Turins in Nice France. Other is a single short rib served with Chave Hermitage 1982 at Picasso in Las Vegas

My current drink of choice:

Grey Goose on the rocks

I really wish I could:

be the food critic for the New York Times

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Gnocchi with Brown butter and sage

My favorite comfort food:

Chicken fried steak

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Cafe des Turin, Nice; Bacon, Cap D'Antibes; Picasso, Las Vegas; Daniel, NYC; Blue Ribbon Sushi, SOHO, NYC

My most tattered cookbooks:

Dean and Deluca Cookbook, the David Rosengarten edition