What's the last meal you want to eat before you die?
The food would be all my favorites—why choose when it's my last chance? There would be the lightest hand-rolled pasta with a simple, simple tomato sauce from Emilia-Romagna; Andy Ricker's Thai chicken wings and a least 3 other picks from the Pok Pok menu; my favorites from Joël Robuchon; the grilled little green peppers and sherry from that tapas bar in Spain; the duck salad and garlic-black pepper-butter crab from New Saigon in Denver; a bowl of perfect Pho; apple pie; corn on the cob with Diane St. Clair's butter; Paula Wolfert's bisteeya; a salad of Kentucky limestone lettuce, and perfect fruit: stone fruits, melons, cherries, mangoes, papayas, and dragonfruit. And we'd drink Billecart-Salmon Brut through it all.

Giancarlo Buonomo