When I was still more-or-less a kid, I lived for the summer in a household that included a classically-trained French cook. She prepared Vitello Tonnato exactly twice. The memory lingers.
My current drink of choice:
Widmer with a slice of orange
I really wish I could:
afford a houseboy to do all the prep and clean-up...
My favorite comfort food:
anything with noodles
My most tattered cookbooks:
American Cookery, The Way to Cook, Cooking Under Pressure, the old NY Times Cookbook. And, not really a cookbook, but I love the MFK Fisher Reader.