EmoryJ

Real Name:

Emory J.

Location:

The Cement Orchard (me@emoryjoseph.com)

Blog:

http:// http:// http://emoryjoseph.blogspot.com

Best meal I ever ate:

How about the first time I ever ate Thai food. It was at J's Noodles in Denver (i983?). I sat there and just kept ordering things - "Tamarind? What's a tamarind?"

My current drink of choice:

Blanton's manhattan rocks w scary-chino cherry juice

I really wish I could:

Have a proper kitchen to cook from again

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

For Fancy? Suffed Pork Roast • For Summer Grilling? Grilled pork shoulder steaks with Rasberry Chipotle Sauce • For Swingers? Warm Chocolate Pudding haha

My favorite comfort food:

Some sort of pork and some sort of gratin

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

K Paul's - New Orleans, LA, Uglesich's - New Orlean's, LA, Barelas Coffee House - Albuquerque, NM, Dot's Diner - Boulder, CO (RIP), The Brothers in Law - St.Louis, MO (RIP)

My most tattered cookbooks:

Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen