Sommelier

Location:

Brooklyn, NY

Best meal I ever ate:

Lunch at Le Grand Vefour in Paris on a sunny day in mid October.

My current drink of choice:

Old vines, single vineyard Cru Beaujolais. You can tell a wine lover from a wine snob in the way they react to an offer of a good Beaujolais.

I really wish I could:

Live forever.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Cassoulet!!!

My favorite comfort food:

Potatoes cooked in duck fat

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Les Halles, NYC; Thoumieux, Paris; Pic, Valence; Chanterelle, NYC, Ashbell's. London

My most tattered cookbooks:

Every one by James Beard