What's Your Food Fantasy? Here's Anthony Bourdain's
When asked by the New York Post's Page Six this weekend what his food fantasy would be, Anthony Bourdain replied: "Chef Marco Pierre White and Keith Richards would be throwing something on the barbie in a backyard in Red Hook." Attendees would include, among others, silent film actress Louise Brooks (allowed to speak, presumably) along with Orson Welles and the "CIA director of counterintelligence." Interesting, Anthony.
My fantasy dinner would be held on the Massachusetts shore on a warm summer night. Mario Batali would be the ringleader, partly for the food he'd bring, but mostly because I'm quite sure he knows how to lead a Bacchanalian feast. He would also cook, of course, but the pizza would come from Di Fara. Recent (good-looking) Top Chef finalists would compete for the best hors d'oeuvres. Pouchon Fils-Aime, from the Little Chef Bakery in Princeton, New Jersey, would provide desserts. (And breakfast pastries, if the night went on long enough.) There would definitely be an In-N-Out truck stationed somewhere.
Enough—I'm getting too hungry. What would your food fantasy be?
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13 Comments:
Both my grandmothers alive and making their wonderful feasts and I can sit and do not a damn thing other than sip good wine and talk to them once more asking all the questions and recipes I forgot to ask. Everyone is healthy and happy and the kitchen smells like heaven.
Gosh that choked me up.
JerzeeTomato at 10:38PM on 10/06/08
@Jerzee: I can only imagine those feasts!
Adam Kuban at 11:00PM on 10/06/08
Anthony Bourdain and some chocolate frosting. 'Nuff said.
Nellbie at 11:47PM on 10/06/08
Shopping at Whole Foods and getting picked up by the Take Home Chef.
buffy at 12:16AM on 10/07/08
Gordon Ramsay and chocolate frosting.
Ok. Seriously though--here's the fantasy. My house is completely clean, the deck my husband is building is finished and there are little twinkly lights hanging from the trees. My crazy neighbor is out of town and can't complain about any noise. My sons, who are four years apart in age, have declared a truce and aren't tormenting each other (and thus are not tormenting me either). I am completely caught up on all work deadlines and the dog isn't barking at anything random. My three favorite girlfriends show up, there are cocktails, and cheese, and more cheese, and bread. Sarah Palin has gone back to whence she came, never to be heard from again, and the world has stopped going insane. And there's cheese.
maered at 12:30AM on 10/07/08
Omakase at Masa. For free.
Amandarama at 7:06AM on 10/07/08
Two fenway franks with ketchup, mustard, relish, onnions and a cold beer during a game seven world series victory.
nhfoodie at 9:50AM on 10/07/08
A Batali-Bourdain sandwich would do just fine.
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vinovamp at 10:17AM on 10/07/08
the best dim sum place in hong kong where the carts never run empty and for some reason, all my family and friends are at the table. and we all speak english.
foodinmouth at 10:31AM on 10/07/08
I'll take Mario as head Chef, Rick Bayless as Sous, Adria for color with Bourdain for play-by-play and let them all go to down. Resurrect the whole band that Miles Davis had for the "Kind Of Blue" sessions and just let them jam while we all sit on a mountain top in Aspen without any tourists on a perfect fall evening.
Bunnyman at 12:02PM on 10/07/08
A Christmas Eve in Northern France with my late parents and my brothers and their families; with my dad and brothers and I cooking, and everybody tasting oysters, cheese, truffled chicken, and drinking champagne before bundling up and being herded through the snow to midnight Mass by the only sober one in the group, my husband Larry (everyone's favorite designated driver). Then we go back home for buche de Noel, candied chestnuts, and Calvados.
dksbook at 12:20PM on 10/07/08
Anything by John Besh (sigh.....)!
zina1017 at 1:45PM on 10/07/08
Eric Ripert for the food and the accent and the ... (sigh)
jackiecat at 4:58PM on 10/07/08