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Best meal I ever ate:

The Fountainbleu Hotel in 1980. It was French onion soup, oysters on the half shell, a Caesar salad, and straberries Romanoff...on a balcony overlooking the ocean...it was so well prepared, so simple and so memorable!

My current drink of choice:

Ciroc Obama Martini

I really wish I could:

Have Anthony Bourdain's job

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

My rum cake

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

They're all in Chicago: Tru, Gene & Georgetti's, Sushi X, South Coast Sushi, Harold's Chicken Shack

My most tattered cookbooks:

The Joy of Cooking, The Taste of Country Cooking, Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine, Mastering The Art of French Cooking, A Taste of The Mediterranean, Carry Out Cuisine