Today we continue our time on the Phoodie Desert Island. If you’re just now catching up, check out our kickoff piece featuring Tom Peters of Monk’s Cafe.
If you don’t know the game, we shouldn’t be friends, but here’s a refresher. There’s a terrible plane crash and you’re stuck alone on a desert island. The cause of the crash is unclear, but it has something to do with the kid who played Ben on Growing Pains. This isn’t ‘Taste Of The Month Island’ or ‘Guilty Pleasure Island’. This shit’s for life. So choose wisely.
In this edition, we get sunburnt with the saucy saucier, Felicia D’Ambrosio of Meal Ticket. Find out what kind of butter she fancies while working on the tan of a lifetime.
Felicia D’Ambrosio is half of the dynamic duo known as Meal Ticket, along with newshound extraordinaire Drew Lazor. Her culinary talents landed her a spot in the wildly popular ChefAMe, and she’s one of the best resources in the city for beer knowledge and squeezing secret recipes out of the city’s best cooks. When she’s not breaking stories and lookin’ fly, you can find her at The Belgian Cafe and Monk’s.
Entree:Â
Steamed Alaskan King Crab
Side Dish:
My great-grandmother’s bacon and white bread Thanksgiving stuffing
Dessert:
Maria’s chocolate pudding at Mr. Martino’s Trattoria
Beer:
Cantillon Fou Foune
Cocktail:
Rye Manhattan with Carpano Antica
Liquor:
Pappy Van Winkle 25 year-old bourbon
Wine:
Perrier-Jouet rosé Champagne
Luxury Ingredient:Â
Gee, I think I covered that with the whiskey, Champagne, Carpano, Cantillon and king crab, right? If I get one more, Plugra butter.
Restaurant (we managed to fly in your favorite, brick by brick):Â
Mémé
Bar (it was a big plane, full of bricks):
The Franklin Mortgage & Exchange
Potato Chip Flavor:Â
Original Lay’s
Soft Drink:Â
Diet Dr. Pepper
Pre-Packaged Baked Good:
Girl Scout Thin Mints
Fast Food:Â
Chick-Fil-AÂ Chick’n strips
Candy:Â
Cadbury Creme Eggs
Comfort Food:
My Mom-Mom’s Eggplant Parmigiana
M&M Color:
Blue
Cookbook:Â
Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything
Cooking utensil/vessel:Â
Japanese chef knife
Hot Dog Topping:Â
Brown mustard
Pizza Topping:Â
Pepperoni
Movie:Â
A League of Their Own (sports, dancing, period costumes, Madonna… it’s got everything!)
Book:Â
Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins
Record Album:Â
Patsy Cline, The Definitive Collection
What is that in her mouth? Can I have some?
For anyone who might be wondering, that is a S’mores bun from Take a Bau in L.A. I am attacking in the photo. It is the stickiest thing you can eat and still get your jaws open to take another bite.
Huge piles of each of these food items would be an incredible sight, I’d park myself right on top of Chic-fil-A chicken strip mountain and just eat my way to the ground….with a backpack full of booze of course. Good choices.
i must have one
“Luxury Ingredient:
Gee, I think I covered that with the whiskey, Champagne, Carpano, Cantillon and king crab, right? If I get one more, Plugra butter.”
I love you.
OH NO!!! Crashed of a desert island? Or was that dessert island??? Girl Scout thin mints, Cadbury cream eggs, diet Dr. Pepper, brown mustard, and pepperoni pizza…. yup, you are my birth daughter!!!!
Chomp on that S’mores bun hot stuff! I’ll watch A League of Their Own (how dare you not mention the participation of the great Jon Lovitz?!) and listen to Patsy with you any day … but only if you bring the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.
Felicia’s the straw that stirs the City Paper/MT drink. Great choice. Great answers.
we should throw a party featuring these delicious items
Thanks for the shout homegirl!
I don’t see anything up there about whompers.
Congrats Felicia, you always impress!!
Hey Felish! Good choices, I must say. Cadbury Creme Eggs washed down with Pappy Van Winkle . . .mmmm. I’m also quite relieved you have good (maybe superior?) genes, else subway turnstiles would be a thing of the past for you. (amazing you are able to keep looking good!). Great work and I love reading your stuff. Merry Christmas from Sofia!
diet dr. pepper tastes more like regular dr. pepper