Last night while in the shower I remembered #4.

He's very pale and there's no beard in sight. Technically, he's kind of unattractive, but he's funny and an amazing chef, and if you ask me, that more than compensates.

Wylie Dufrense.

If his name isn’t enough to convince you he ain’t easy on the eyes, here’s a photo.

He’s the chef/owner of WD-50 in Manhattan and a disciple of Catalan chef/god Ferran Adria (if I could’ve, I would’ve structured my whole trip last year around eating at El Bulli…until I learned that two million people request a table every year and seven thousand actually get one. Ahem…) and a leading proponent molecular gastronomy.

Anyway, his food is really bizarre and scientific and yet somehow sublime (or so I’ve heard and somehow it seems from the cooking shows on which I’ve seen him. I’ve never quite eaten at WD-50…yet.), and he’s very funny (big with me), and there you go.

And – in my defense – he does not look like a rabbi.

And for that, me and my psyche are grateful.

Completely unrelated: Me looking like an escaped member of the 'Ice Capades' and holding the iPod touch I just won from the Googlewaveblogger.com. I love it!!!