The French Laundry
Seth is out at business functions tonight so I am doing what I love to do when he is not here: watching cooking shows.
He hates cooking shows. “Why do we have to talk about food all the time?”
I love them.
And the one I’m watching now is especially good. It’s Anthony Bourdain’s “A Cook’s Tour”. And he’s eating at The French Laundry.
Some of you may know that Seth and I are not married yet. I say yet because it is just one of those things we have not gotten around to yet. Kate came sooner than we expected, and the next thing we knew we were up to our ears in diapers and baby puke.
I’ve been married before and did the whole nine yards — and Seth is not really the type to want a fancy wedding. He’d be happy just to go down to City Hall.
After watching this episode, I know what I want for my honeymoon. I want to eat at The French Laundry.
I have eaten at Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse. I have eaten at Susan Spicer’s Bayona. Those two meals were in my top five.
But now I want to eat at French Laundry.
So maybe we’ll get married in Napa or Sonoma and do a wine-tasting honeymoon. Or maybe we’ll go to Hawaii — and eat at the French Laundry before we go. I don’t know yet. I just know that I have to eat there.
PS: In this episode, Anthony Bourdain goes to Swan Oyster Depot and eats a plate full of oysters on the half shell, and a whole Dungeness crab with melted butter — for breakfast.
I admire that. I would do that.
