Eat Drink and Be Susan

Location:

Oregon

Best meal I ever ate:

In my imagination, it is yet to come. When they invent a feasible enzyme pill that can make gluten not my enemy, it will be the pizza I eat in Napoli.

My current drink of choice:

Greyhound made with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice and potato vodka. Or a perfectly ripe kiwitini.

I really wish I could:

consistently grow good cippolini onions, fresh shelling beans, japanese eggplant, and just generally more fresh fruit and vegetables - the basis of everything wonderful, and the ultimate contentment.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

is always changing, depending on what's good out there.

My favorite comfort food:

Maranatha peanut butter or homemade lemon olive oil mayonnaise.

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

The Columbia Cafe in Astoria, Oregon; Thaiku in Seattle; Pasta Piatti in Ashland, OR (hometown fave); Chez Panisse; the felafel stand on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

My most tattered cookbooks:

Bauman College Natural Chef Recipe Collections; The Greens Cookbook; Forever Summer; How to Cook Everything; Chez Panisse Vegetables