Let's all go to Ireland!
Incidentally. You're holding a dinner party (in Ireland, why not) but you've only got enough, I dunno, chairs, for five DTFers. Who's invited?
Crap, I hate these type of subjects, I always end up leaving people out, but here goes...
Sigz
King
Cozmo
Wkiml
Arrich
I think that covers the five peeps I would most want to meet that I haven't all ready.
Lonestar, what is your favorite cut of steak? Also, as noted by my many questions for you in the last couple of years, I'm also always looking to learn more about cooking. I've looked into culinary porgrams at the local colleges and it always includes some "restaurant management" part that you have to study. I have no desire to manage a restaurant, I just wanna learn to cook better. Classic techniques, different methods for doing things that might make my current techniques work better or replace my current techniques (i.e. when I learned the proper way to dice an onion, it has gone SO much easier every since), or anything. I want to be able to craft something awesome, from my own knowledge, not necessarily always follow a recipe. That said, how much of the "restaurant management" part of your culinary studies do you really engage in regularly?
For me, the striploin, or New York cut is my favorite. The filet is to bland, and the ribeye is too fatty, the filet has just the right balance.
As to the management thing, it does play a big role in my day to day job, especially around menu change time. Being able to cost out the menu is a crucial part of a restaurant's success, and that is the big thing you learn in that part of culinary school. By maximizing the profit of each plate through portion control, selective buying, proper staffing, and proper development, you make yourself look good on the P&L sheets at the end of the week.
Any food you wouldn't try?
Foods you just fucking hate?
Ever fed something to a stranger that you wouldn't feed to somebody you liked?
I'm always willing to try new things people offer me, I just hope nobody ever offers me haggis or balut. Lots of stuff I hate, beets, oysters, coffee, dill pickles come to mind. The only thing I feed to strangers that I wouldn't to someone I like is when a person orders a well done steak, they get the shitty cuts of meat. Even then, a friend or a stranger would never know it was a shitty cut because all the life has been cooked out of the thing all ready.