Full tummy

Location:

Toronto

Best meal I ever ate:

Tied: Susur (2002), Peninsula Ridge (2003ish), On the Twenty (1998), and nothing's come close since

My current drink of choice:

Pineau des Charentes, a really good gewurtztraminer, Norman Hardie Melon de Bourgogne

I really wish I could:

Cook amazing Indian food.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Gravlax, Trifle, Swedish meatballs

My favorite comfort food:

Grilled cheese sandwiches, creamy mashed potatoes, crème brulée, chicken roti, KD, a really cheesy pizza, chicken noodle soup, really good bread and salted butter, peanut butter sandwiches...

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Don't have favourites right now, but enjoy many.

My most tattered cookbooks:

The New Basics, Rosso & Lukins; Cooks' Illustrated: Best Recipes; How to Cook Meat, Schlesinger & Willoughby--and the forever untattered www.epicurious.com