Instead, she usually focuses on a good novel Patrick Suskind's "Perfume" and Stefan Zweig's "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" are recentfavorites, she says.
Favorites from a recent dinner: sticky Guanabana glazed ribs with green papaya slaw, conch chowder, slow braised oxtail and spiny lobster in a dry sherry bisque with green garlic zucchini.