Parsley, Sage dating advice, Rosemary and Thyme

As a chef I get a lot of fun, and or funny questions. Especially about dating, and what to cook, how to score etc etc. Since Tucker Duke's has opened and it is a lunch counter the conversations have been quite funny. And it doesn't hurt when Uncle Danny Ray is around...

What's the sexiest food?

Oysters. Just looking at an oyster makes you think of something anatomical.
I also find Uni very sexy, it is more about the velvet texture, and the paired with homemade pasta, garlic and chilies damn I am ready to go!

But Anyone who knows me knows I'm a big, big, big believer in liver. It has to be the sexiest food on the planet. The custardy texture, the intense flavor, you have to submit to liver, take it all the way in. A good rare beef liver is like being banged hard against a wall in a skeezy alley behind a nightclub. This is sexy...


(beef liver and bacon, with creamy polenta)

What's the best meal to prepare for someone I'm trying to seduce?

Keep it light, simple, salads, fish, dessert is a must... If your seductions works you'll thank me later...

How did I get food writers and pretty girls to come over to eat my food?

Really this comes down to just promise to cook for them, and or just say that there is food here.. But I needed to casually impress. Something like the culinary equivalent of carefully procured bedhead. "Oh, this old thing? I just whip this up when I don't care what I'm eating." But don't promise them fancy. Totally authentic borscht or tripe soup like your daddy used to make. If you brag about your single-batch Ecuadorian free-trade chocolate I guarantee you'll look like an asshole.

I'm seeing someone I'm marginally into. We're having fun, but I know I don't want to get serious. At what point do I have to break it off?

The moment you feel like there more into you than you're into them. Stringing someone along like that is deplorable. People deserve honesty, and if you're honest with him from the beginning about your intentions and he's okay with that, keep going. If you feel you're being duplicitous, you should end it right away. As soon as you know it's going to hurt them terribly. If you're both in it for the short run, no harm, no foul. If he/she starts wanting to make you waffles in bed, that's a sure sign there in too deep, and you gotta go.


My boy/girl friend of eight months and I are thinking of moving in together, but we can only afford a studio. What should we do?

Don't do it... At least get a one bedroom or don't do it! Why don't you also open up a small business as well as the same time that way you have zero time away from each other... Space may be the final frontier but it is good in a relationship.


What should I cook for someone I want a long-term relationship with?

Something homey like spaghetti and meatballs. If you're making a family recipe, you're opening up the conversation to talk about your past. Bt really anything that takes a bit of time and that is shown but not spoken about. You will look like a tart if you are stroking your self about how long you spent in the kitchen. Cause I know I can do just as well with half the time! Under stated meals, that having meaning are the best.



I want to make a sex tape with the guy/ girl I'm seeing, but he's hesitant. How do I make him more comfortable with the idea?

First off why do people expect me to know how to get someone on video doing something primal, and carnal?

Unless you're super-hot and skilled in cinematic lighting, I really think making a sex tape is a bad idea. My porno experience is pretty much limited to internet pop-up ads, ok not really, but I am definitely familiar with food porn. And I know that lots of amateur photographers put some really disgusting-looking, badly lit, poorly styled food on their personal blogs.

I mean just look at the bad lighting in this hotel bathroom you think your going. To look flattering while doing the horizontal hula?



I'm going on my third date with a guy whose birthday is this weekend. What can I plan that will be "birthday special," but not too romantic or intense for a third date?

Cupcakes! No really who doesn't like fucking cupcakes, but find out what there favorite flavor is and make sure that is there... I once had a girl make me cake with a dragon on it. It was a hand drawn dragon. And it was one of the nicest gifts ever, next to the record player and lemon blue berry cake... Ok really just get some kind of cake, but not some grocery store bastard version of cake, spend some dough, you might even get a piece.... And I'm not talking about cake there!



I love Martha Stewart, she would get lucky if she made me cup cakes...


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