hi i'm anthony falco i'm an
international pizza consultant and this
is everything i eat in a day
so the first thing i do when i wake up
make coffee i'm on the road and i got
myself a little coffee grinder french
press and i've got some good local
coffee beans while the french press is
steeping i make an oatmeal very simple
just a little salt some arizona desert
honey dried cranberries and sunflower
seeds i am a cream in the coffee kind of
person just a splash i like to put it in
i don't know if this makes a difference
but i like to put it in the cup first
and then pour the hot coffee into the
cream then i've got my coffee i've got
my oatmeal and then i've got my little
glass of orange juice that's how i get
started sometimes i drink tea that's an
afternoon thing i love iced tea iced tea
is one of my favorite things we're out
here in the desert it gets really hot a
big iced tea full of ice with a lemon
you know if i'm too wound up maybe a
little chamomile at night it's nice to
kind of take things down so after i eat
breakfast a typical day for me right now
is getting in an uber and going to the
kitchen where i am working on developing
the new menu for super freako in las
vegas at the cosmopolitan hotel we're
doing a lot of menu testing right now so
it's cooking standing on my feet cooking
i am menu testing so lunch is a little
redundant when you're developing a menu
if it was like a big pizza tasting day
the day before i'll usually skip
breakfast if i'm back home my preferred
typical lunch is probably tacos i eat a
lot of pizza and pasta and food that i
cook for work and when i'm not eating
that i like to eat tacos and mexican
food actually one of my favorite things
for lunch of all time is pad grappao and
it's a thai dish holy basil chicken with
a fried egg and rice it's one of my
favorites it's like a perfect lunch
chicken and rice a lot of cultures
around the world have like a chicken and
rice dish for lunch and that's it's kind
of like the perfect balance of a little
bit of protein and carbs and then throw
some spice in there and that's what's
good i always have my sourdough starter
with me i travel with it all over the
world and i have two different starters
i have starter a and starter b aka
starde b and one of them is kind of a
basic kind of all-purpose flour and a
plastic container you know it's a
workhorse and then stardewbee's my like
special starter i've only ever kept it
in a glass container and i only feed it
organic stone-milled flour so i think
the favorite recipe that i developed for
the cookbook is my sicilian grandma
dough i love making it what i love about
it is i made pizza for many years
usually you have to stretch the pizza
out with flour and you get flour on
yourself and you get flour all over the
place and on your shoes what i love
about the sicilian grandma is after you
mix the dough it goes in the pan there's
some pressing out and it rises in the
pan and then when it's time to make the
pizza you just top it with whatever you
want and you can cook it in a home oven
in a toaster oven if you have a pizza
oven you can cook in a pizza oven but
it's just super flexible i'm excited
about this recipe the sicilian grandma
recipe it's a focaccia basically so you
can top it and have it be a pizza or you
can just bake it off put some sesame
seeds on it and then cut it open and
make a sandwich which is a good time do
i snack throughout the day i'm not a
huge snacker i am a fan of nuts i
usually have cashews and pistachios and
almonds around there's nothing usual
about my schedule at all so i usually
eat dinner it depends if i'm traveling
abroad and the client wants to go to
dinner then you know we may eat dinner
late if i am at home and i'm having like
a downtime office week eat dinner pretty
early on the earlier side you know the
kids eat around 6 30 and 7 and then we
just go right into making dinner for
ourselves if i've been on the road doing
a lot of pizza testing i'm usually
trying to keep it pretty carb free like
a little grass-fed bavette maybe some
broccoli roasted broccoli with olive oil
and sea salt perfect dinner and on the
earlier side do you want to eat too late
it's hard to get up
eat late get groggy beverage of choice
at dinner is an easy one that is gonna
be a pamplemoose lacroix i love lacroix
i'm kind of a lacroix
head i'm one of those natural wine
dorks i love a good austrian natural
white or rose pop that chill it drink
that i am known to late night snack i
like the dark chocolate peanut butter
cups from either justin's or if you go
to trader joe's and a couple of those at
the end of the night maybe with a
handful of the nuts that i've been
snacking on all day is a good little
one-two dark chocolate nuts peanut
butter i don't think of myself as
someone who gets hangry but i'm often
accused of being hangry i probably get
hangry um
you know but that's what
bananas are for
usually that was if i'm starting to get
hangry
my wife
is gonna bex is gonna be like here eat a
banana you're being grumpy ingredient
food that i actively avoid processed
foods ingredients that have chemicals or
stabilizers in it that's it other than
that i'm down was a picky eater when i
was a little kid and i am just always
down to try everything now i think my
favorite food city is probably bangkok
can go to chinatown and there's go from
stall to stall and eat all kinds of
snacks and i mean the energy in bangkok
is amazing definitely one of my favorite
food cities my go-to comfort meal is
spaghetti with tomato sauce if it's
summer i usually make tomato sauce which
is just roasted sun gold with salt and
olive oil pureed and then start the pan
with a little garlic olive oil pour that
blended sun gold sauce let that sun gold
reduce throw the pasta in there toss it
all together a little butter a little
parmesan put it on the plate olive oil
more parm
ultimate comfort food and that's
everything i eat in a day thanks for
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