Highly subjective takes on life's most interesting experiences.

What’s the most unexpected meal you’ve ever had?

Probably the menu at Punk Royale in Stockholm. You really haven’t known awkwardness until a waiter has fed you a giant syringe of hot soup.

What’s the best-tasting food you’ve ever eaten?

This is a tie between any fruit in any market in Mexico City and the mole at Pujol, also in Mexico City. Also, lunch at a restaurant called La Marine in Normandy. I honestly can’t remember what I ate there but I remember being very happy about it. Finally, the tasting menu at Scribe Winery in Sonoma. The food is fresh and simple but that place is so magical; I’m sure eating Pringles would be a transcendent experience if consumed there.

What’s your most treasured personal ritual?

If we’re talking about a hotel room, I do this weird thing where I immediately open the closet and untie the belt on one of the bathrobes. I think it’s because they’re always knotted so tightly; I have this idea that I won’t want to bother with undoing them later, when I get out of the shower. But I will want the robe.