Devine Dining

What kinds of meals stick in your mind? One of my favorites was grilled bacon and cheese on an island when I was a 12 year old camper in New Hampshire. I actually remember that it wasn't actually good but I was cold and hungry and therefore it was delicious. SoI'm not sure if all the devine french food that I love so much with the unctuously smooth sauces and layers of flavor really takes the Memory cake. Don't take that away from me, please. But this morning I had one of those signal meals that I'll remember for a long time. I had to go to work at 4:30 am to be a presence and problem solve on the spot for a major TV shoot. So believe me when I tell you that it was cold. Snow on the ground, crunchy ice or that terrible saltm wet puddles of melting stuff. It was beautiful because the sun wasn't up yet and the snow looked untouched in Central Park. 18 degrees. Cold and dark. skinny runners would move on past the front steps of the Museum and totally ignore a 50 ft crane being put in place or the crowd of teamsters working there. So cold. Or have I said that? Then it was windy and finally my feet in my wonderfully warm Canadian boots began to freeze. No feeling there. My face was long gone and I shuffled off balanced against the wind to the crafts service truck that had just started serving breakfast on the street. It's about the wind and ice again. So I bellied up to the crafts service truck behind a group of hulking teamsters who were all ordering breakfast. Where are the ham and egg sandwiches on a kaiser roll of yeteryear. This group was ordering Egg White Burrito, Egg White Wrap with ham, spinach and cheese. And I gotta say, Me, too I said in my most authoritative fashion. Egg White wrap with ham, spinach and onions. I was dying for something hot. 2 minutes later: Presto
Here's you go. And there I went. hot, steaming, tasty and large. I really had no idea what I was eating except that I kept inhaling clouds of warm steam that were easy to chew. Bad black coffee. More clouds of steam. Yum. That's meal that I will remember for a long time.

And unfortunately when I order it again someplace it won't be nearly as good as that first eggwhite wrap with spinach, ham and onions.