I'm late to the game, but here goes:
Top 3 Meals:
1. I partook of a nine-course tasting menu with wine pairings at a hotel restaurant in San Francisco with my aunt. I don't remember everything on the menu, but I remember there was fois gras and a very sweet white wine that paired amazingly. Also it was an art-deco style room with mirrored mosaics, and we were dressed up pretty fancy...it was just fun.
2. One time I was in Seattle at a library conference, and I went with a bunch of publisher reps and other librarians to a wine bar called Purple. I had a flight of wines that are completely unmemorable, and some macaroni & cheese with chunks of lobster, and also some amazing finely sliced brussels sprouts with bacon. The company, the food, and the sips of someone else at the table's digestif were all fantastic.
3. Thanksgiving dinner the year my Grandad died. The memorial service was held a few days before Thanksgiving, so many of us who wouldn't otherwise have made it there were able to be together. My brother made spanakopita and my sister's boyfriend roasted a medley of root vegetables and my sister-in-law made this feta & rosemary dipping oil for bread that my mom made, and dad cooked a couple chickens he'd raised, and I don't even remember what else... I think we had 14 people around the table...I ended up buying the table, which folds down to a 2-person table, when it came up at auction, mostly because of the memories of so many meals eaten around it.
Top 3 dog breeds:
1. Golden retriever
2. Basenji
3. Standard poodle
Top 3 ways to have bacon:
1. Right out of the pan, after cooking it over slow heat until the fat runs out and it simmers in a pool of its own fat.
2. Crumbled over rice that was also cooked with bacon fat.
3. On a grass-fed beef burger cooked medium, with lettuce, tomato and mayo.