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Tony de Luca
  Recipes from Wine Country
Tony de Luca
Organized by wine and season, this book from the executive chef of Hillebrand
Estates Winery celebrates the food and wine of the Niagara Peninsula in such
recipes as roasted duck breast with quinoa and cherry merlot reduction and ice
wine crème brulee tart. Colour photos. Paper, 320 pp. $34.95.
Cookbook: The first album/CD/eight track you bought?
TdL: Beatles, Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Cookbook: What was your first car?
TdL: Sky blue Gremlin.
Cookbook: Your favourite junk food?
TdL: Krispy Kreme Boston Crème right off the line.
Cookbook: What kitchen gadget, or piece of equipment can't you live without?
TdL: Fish spatula.
Cookbook: Your favourite ingredient, or food?
TdL: Wine, garlic
Cookbook: Most over-rated ingredient, or food?
TdL: Truffle oil, crème brule, confusion cuisine.
Cookbook: What was the first cookbook you used?
TdL: Anton Mosimann Cuisine Naturelle,
Mosimann's Fish.
Cookbook: Your favourite authors, doesn't have to be cookbook authors?
TdL: J.K. Rowling, Umberto Eco.
Cookbook: Your favourite city?
TdL: Siena.
Cookbook: What is your greatest extravagance/indulgence?
TdL: Fresh made vanilla ice cream.
Cookbook: Your favourite movie?
Rocky.
Cookbook: What was your first job?
TdL: Washing dishes at my Mom's restaurant.
Cookbook: What kind of music do you like?
TdL: All kinds.
Cookbook: Your pet peeve when dining out?
TdL: The pepper mill, bread basket.
Cookbook: Your favourite drink?
TdL: Single malt scotch.
Cookbook: If you could change one thing in the food & wine industry what would
it be?
Bring your own wines.
Cookbook: Who has been the biggest influence on your career?
TdL: Nigel Didcock (executive chef at The Granite Club
in Toronto).
Cookbook: What four people, alive or dead, would you invite
to dinner? (assuming, or maybe not, you would invite your significant
other to have six around the dinner table!).
TdL: Ayn Rand, Groucho Marx, Escoffier, Jim Morrison.
Website: Hillebrand's profile - http://www.hillebrand.com/hillebrand/experience.html
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