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.
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