childofthestorm

Location:

Toronto

Best meal I ever ate:

A tasting menu at Toqué in Montreal with my fiancée, now my wife.

My current drink of choice:

I'll drink just about anything except sweet martinis. But I would want to pack several cases of vintage Bordeaux and Super Tuscans with me to the proverbial desert island.

I really wish I could:

Eat whatever I want and not gain weight or shorten my lifespan.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Risotto.

My favorite comfort food:

Rotisserie chicken.

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Montreal: Au Pied du Cochon, Toqué, Milos. Vancouver: Vij. Austin: Ironworks BBQ. I bought a house in Toronto...cramped my eating out a bit.

My most tattered cookbooks:

I mostly just read a bunch of recipes online and then wing it with the ingredients I've found or have on hand. But the page for basic tomato sauce recipe in Batali's book is covered in oil and tomato spatter. I've memorized it now.