always_eating

Location:

Toronto

Best meal I ever ate:

Tripe alla Fiorentina at Osteria No. 1 in Florence, Roast Bone Marrow & Parsley Salad and Tripe & Chips at St. John in London and Pig's Foot Milanese at Babbo in NYC. Clearly I have a thing for offal.

My current drink of choice:

Ginger Beer, preferably with Tequila

I really wish I could:

Be fluent in Japanese and live in Japan.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

I'm either a bad or insane host in that I like to experiment or try new dishes on dinner guests, usually without ever having cooked them before. If it works, it works, if it doesn't, we drink and eat chocolate!

My favorite comfort food:

Sticky Rice with Pork Belly & an Egg Yolk or Fresh Bread & Butter or Avocado Half drizzled with Olive Oil, Lime Juice & Salt or Stinky Runny Cheeses & Crackers or 70%+ Dark Chocolate.

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Alex - Las Vegas, Babbo - NYC, Buca - Toronto, Original Guu - Toronto, Kioupia - Rhodes, Ramon Roteta - Hondarribia, Sakagura - NYC, St. John - London, The Black Hoof - Toronto, Zuni Cafe - San Francisco

My most tattered cookbooks:

The A-Z of Chinese Cooking, my binders of recipes collected over the years, Rosso & Lukins' Silver Palate Cookbook and all my back issues of Saveur.