Chefs Favorites
He’d go into fields to find herbs, spices
and hunt for chicken, fish and other big
ingredients before taking them back home,
where his mother would mix them up with
a base made of pepper, fish sauce, anchovy
paste — the base ingredients for the soup.
Then they’d add anything else that sounded
good, like mushrooms or lemon grass.
“I can’t ever make it, it’s something I try to
duplicate and never do right,” said Sutchaleo.
“I go home and have my mother make it!”
Thai food is almost universally spicy, and
that serves as Tyson’s inspiration for the wine
pairing, a dry Riesling. The slight sweetness
of the wine goes well with hot food, and
is versatile enough to work with multiple
ingredients.
Tyler Grizzard
Hubbard’s Off Main, Oxford
Getting Tyler Grizzard to settle on a favorite
dish is maybe two or three shad