Shooley

Best meal I ever ate:

Probably French Laundry

My current drink of choice:

wine, mostly Italian and French

I really wish I could:

make wine in Italy

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Slow roasted pork, homemade pasta, stuff like that. I don't make the same stuff usually.

My favorite comfort food:

toast, granola

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

French Laundry, Citronelle, Daniel, Le Pavillon des Lys in Amboise,La Giostra (Florence, Italy), some private chef's house where we ate in the Italian Piedmont, this place in Hong Kong whose name I never got, Primo and Babbo. Ok that's more than 5..

My most tattered cookbooks:

Ad Hoc at Home, Marcella Hazan, Elizabeth David, Zuni Cafe, Around My French Table, All about Braising, Joy of Cooking, Silver Palate, Julia Child