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Location:

Cleveland

Best meal I ever ate:

I love everything from a simple bowl of Pho at Khiem's in town, to Coq au Vin at Bistro Jeanty in the Napa Valley.

My current drink of choice:

Boodles martini, VERY dry. The blue cheese olives double as a delicious appetizer!

I really wish I could:

Get paid to be a travel writer.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

I like to start with bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with a marcona almond and some gorgonzola.

My favorite comfort food:

Soup: Caldo de Res, Pho (always), tomato bisque, mulligatawny...

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Frontera Grill, Chicago; Slanted Door, San Francisco; Fahrenheit, Cleveland; 3 Birds, Lakewood; El Naranjo, Oaxaca City

My most tattered cookbooks:

I dig Sheila Lukin's warm-hearted approach to cooking and entertaining, so The Silver Palate, The New Basics, and Celebrate!