Last week, Amber and I went to dinner with our two friends: Chanteuse extraordinaire Shelly Goldstein and her husband, filmmaker Brendan Foley. We went to Benihana, which is one of Amber's favorite places to dine and mine, as well.
I was reminded of a time many years ago when Sergio Aragonés and I were guests at a comic convention in Texas and we went to dinner at a Benihana with our friend and editor, Archie Goodwin. Sergio, who cooks almost as well as he cartoons, kept asking questions of our chef and our chef kept showing him how this was done and how that was done…and by the end of the cooking process, Sergio was preparing the food under rather minimal supervision from the chef. I wasn't sure which one of them to tip so, of course, I tipped neither.
Amber loves Benihana Fried Rice and that evening along with her entree, she consumed two bowls of it, plus I got her one to go. I suspect she's just hanging around me for the fried rice. Here we see a Benihana chef teaching someone who's not quite as fast a learner as Sergio how to make it…