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Best meal I ever ate:

in the jungle about 4 miles south of Puerta Vallarta, the restaurant was built into the mountain by a waterfall...the lunch was a glorious seafood platter, freshly caught...we ate and drank and watched the businessmen from the town being served drinks at the water...this was a favorite place for them to swim, drink and then eat....glorious!

My current drink of choice:

full bodied red wine or champagne

I really wish I could:

live in Paris for a year

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

I don't go to parties

My favorite comfort food:

Pasta with cheese...parmesan, gruyere, old cheddar...sauteed in cream, a touch of chicken broth , with fresh ground pepper and sea salt....Dessert would be a fruitplate...green grapes, fresh pineapple and papaya....."un peu de vin" or cran/orange juice, iced with half a squeezed lemon...

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

-Les Fous de l'Ile, Ile Saint Louis, Paris 2-The Rushton, Toronto 3-waterfall restaurant near Puerta Vallarta 4-Le Cochon a l'Oreille, Paris 5-a picnic on the batobus on the Seine

My most tattered cookbooks:

I very seldom use cookbooks although I own about 60 and love to read about food! Love Julia Child's bio, Appetite for Life, Waverly Root's " The Food of France", "The Cheese Primer" (Jenkins..The Okinawa Programme, both of Patricia Wells' books , one on Paris, one on France, Any of Anthony Bourdain