Pintxos

GERALD HIRIGOYEN is the chef-owner of two acclaimed San Francisco restaurants, Piperade and Bocadillos. He has twice been named Best Chef in the Bay Area by San Francisco Magazine, voted one of Food & Wine's Top New Chefs in America, and nominated in 2006 for the James Beard Foundation Best Chef: California award. This is his third book. He lives in Mill Valley, California.THE AUTHOR SCOOPWho would you cast as yourself in a movie of your life?Kevin Spacey Favorite cocktail?Negroni Favorite seasoning?Piment d’Espelette What’s your favorite snack food?Pickled Herring What stimulates your creative juices?Pressure What is your favorite thing about being an author?To be able to pass the books down through generations of my family, so that one day my great grandchild can pick up a book by me... If you had to boil your message down to one sentence, what would it be? That food is just food, and you’re not going to perish even if you mess it up!