Interviews with...
Lisa Slater
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Lisa Slater
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CB: The first album/CD/eight track you bought?
LS: Meet the Beatles.
CB: What was your first car?
LS: 1967 Volvo.
CB: Your favourite junk food?
LS: Nacho chips or something salty and crispy!
CB: What kitchen gadget, or piece of equipment can't you live without?
LS: A
good knife.
CB: Your favourite ingredient, or food?
LS: It is a toss up between chocolate
and salt.
CB: Most over-rated ingredient, or food?
LS: Pepper.
CB: What was the first cookbook you used?
LS: The Settlement Cookbook.
CB: Your favourite authors, doesn't have to be cookbook authors?
LS: Tolstoy,
Flaubert.
CB: Your favourite city?
LS: New York.
CB: What is your greatest extravagance/indulgence?
LS: Art.
CB: Your favourite movie?
LS: The Graduate.
CB: What was your first job?
LS: Slinging hash in a coffee shop in Wellesley,
Massachusetts.
CB: What kind of music do you like?
LS: Classical and Jazz.
CB: Your favourite sports team?
LS: None!
CB: Your pet peeve when dining out?
LS: Bad service, bad food and paying
too much for mediocre food.
CB: Your favourite drink?
LS: Good Kentucky bourbon.
CB: If you could change one thing in the food & wine
industry what would it be?
LS: Pretension.
CB: Who has been the biggest influence on your career
LS: My parents.
CB: What four people, dead or alive, would you invite to dinner (assuming
you would invite your significant other to have six around the
table)?
LS: Marie-Antoinette, Elizabeth I, Eleanor Roosevelt,
my mother and Marie de Medici.
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