New York, NY USA. March 2007
\n4 course prix fixe
\nMy favorite food author, Anthony Bourdain, says his first oyster was what made him realize that food could be special. I remember what I ate that made me feel this way too. The Grand Marnier souffl\u00e9 at Le Cote Basque on my sister’s birthday sometime when I was around 9 years old, was, up to that point, one of the most unique things I had ever eaten. I don’t know how it happened, but I became a souffl\u00e9 nut. I’d look for restaurants that made it well. For example, Chez Madeleine in Bergenfield, NJ was a must for chocolate souffl\u00e9, and even its successor, Madeleine’s Petite Paris (with far inferior savory food) maintained the chocolate masterpiece. I even took to making my own souffl\u00e9 and was given all the necessary materials and tools by my aunt on a particularly young birthday. It should come as no surprise then, that on my birthday, I commonly request a French meal, particularly at places that serve dessert souffl\u00e9s. Bouley seemed a perfect choice: renowned restaurant and it has chocolate souffl\u00e9 for dessert. Although we ate this meal way before Virginia began photographing food, I still remember what I ate. Tuna tartar, \u201cReturn From Chiang Mai\u201d (Lobster), lamb chops and, of course, the chocolate souffl\u00e9. All this, combined with good wine, amazing bread, and impeccable ambiance and service, was unmatched at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York, NY USA. March 2007 4 course prix fixe My favorite food author, Anthony Bourdain, says his first oyster was what made him realize that food could be special. I remember what I ate that made me feel this way too. The Grand Marnier souffl\u00e9 at Le Cote Basque on my sister’s birthday sometime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[125],"tags":[132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}