Ville Magazine l Insider Access for City Lifestyle Jan/Feb 2016 / Premiere Issue | Page 35

One item everyone should have in the kitchen: Cocoa Powder Favorite dish: Meatballs or Little Dev Guiltiest pleasure: Anything chocolate peanut butter Favorite ingredient to cook with: My own spice blends The worst dish you have ever made: Mushroom loaf – I was catering on Thanksgiving for one of the producers of Seinfeld many years ago. I had to make a full Thanksgiving meal and Vegan Thanksgiving meal. Especially back then, I wasn’t familiar with vegan and there weren’t a lot of vegan recipes. I don’t even like mushrooms. I had friends over so I had them try some dishes and to this day people still comment on “the mushroom loaf.” The best dish you have ever made: Little Dev, it’s a makeover of Big Mac and I do a makeover of a Cinnabon, which tastes exactly the same if not better. But the Cowboy Tenderloins, a recipe I made in my restaurant on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, is one of the best steaks I’ve ever had and I really enjoy it… and brownies. A diet fad that that shouldn’t be one: For people that are actually gluten intolerant, I think that it‘s important that they have so many options. But for people that don’t and have doctors that don’t know what they are doing and took a shot in the dark and diagnosed them gluten free makes me crazy. Because most of the time the alternatives they are using such as tapioca starch or other starches are actually a lot worse for you than eating whole wheat. PREMIERE ISSUE l VILLE l 35