ABOUT THIS COOK:

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  deep fried silk worms

• What do you cook when home alone?
  Spaghettoni cacio e pepe in the winter; a big salad of wild greens, raw feta and Armenian cucumber in the summer (which I eat straight out of the mixing bowl).

• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  Libeco linen apron. Oh, and I love my small offset spatula.

• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  four, because doing the dishes for six when tipsy and full is not my idea of a happy ending