tim irvine

Real Name:

carbonite

Location:

Austin

Best meal I ever ate:

too many to list...might have been a cheeseburger and might have been a rack of lamb injected with tangerine liqueur,

My current drink of choice:

Knob Creek for serious drinking and conviviality, a medium cheap Sangiovese or Chianti while cooking, and Krug or Billecart Salmon Rose when I win the lottery (which I never play)

I really wish I could:

find the time to make Napoleons and get my sourdough to be more sour

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

chicken piccata with capers or pasta puttanesca

My favorite comfort food:

Lamb shahi korma

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Bountiful for burgers, Las Palomas, Bombay Grill Enoteca/Vespaio

My most tattered cookbooks:

Fanny Farmer, Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol I, Original NYT, and Pamela Azquith;s Fruit Tarts