once rural small town quickly becoming bedroom community for KC commuters
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Best meal I ever ate:
Any of the many meals I had while visiting Rome over Christmas break when I was 21. Those three weeks changed my view of food forever.
My current drink of choice:
darjeeling tea
I really wish I could:
carry a tune
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
dinner party? hahahahaha
My favorite comfort food:
tori zosui
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
Buga (San Diego, CA); Izakaya Sakura (San Diego, CA); Pizza Bella (Kansas City, MO,); Room 39 (Kansas City, MO or Leawood, KS)
My most tattered cookbooks:
James Beard's American Cooking; Yamuna Devi's Lord Krishna's Cuisine: Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking; Deborah Madison's VC4E; Bill Neal's Biscuits, Spoonbread, Sweet Potato Pie; Hiroko Shimbo's Japanese Kitchen