Leucadian

Location:

San Diego County

Best meal I ever ate:

Second date with my wife, at a little French place on Point Loma, Mon Paris, long since gone.

I really wish I could:

Be a good baker. I'm getting better.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Chicken biryani in a charcoal fired dutch oven

My favorite comfort food:

arroz e feijao

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Any five untried ethnic holes in walls

My most tattered cookbooks:

Joy of Cooking from age, Ortiz's Village Baker from overuse, Julia Child MTAOFC from both.