Contributor Favorite | 02/01/2008 12:02 pm
My Foods:
- Steamed artichokes with lemon butter
- Salmon raw, smoked, grilled or poached
- Fried chicken
- Squash casserole
- My mother’s vegetable soup and cornbread
- My mother’s fried eggplant
- Just-picked white corn
- Campbell’s tomato and chicken noodle soups
- Oysters on the halfshell
- Fresh gulf shrimp
- Caviar on blini
- Souffle potatoes from "21"
- Mackerel tartar with ossetra caviar and sauce remoulade from Le Bernardin if only they’ll put it on the menu again
- A perfect filet of sole with boiled new potatoes and sauteed spinach, preferable at Wilton’s in London
- Hot tamales from Doe’s Eat Place in Greenville, Mississippi
- Vietnamese beef pho and cha gio
- Porcini mushrooms
- A good Roman steak, preferably from Nino in Rome
- Serrano ham from Spain
- Smithfield ham from Virginia
- Leg of lamb





















