Eric interviews international food and drink maven Virginia Miller. She's the Western North America Academy Chair for the World's 50 Best Restaurants, as well as a contributor to some of the world's most lauded culinary and beverage publications.

Some of the topics we discuss include:

• How Virginia leveraged her innate curiosity to transition from a home schooled education to a career and food and drink writing at the highest level.
• How to train your palate to like EVERYTHING - even those things that you might have grown up really hating (or even fearing).
• What Virginia has learned from visiting over 11,000 restaurants (and more than twice that many bars) around the world.
• Why she is still in love with her home city of San Francisco, including a review of some of the most beautiful and innovative programs in that city today.
• What it means to elevate food and drink beyond local offerings - including a metaphor that involves taking apart an engine.
• The simple, elegant appeal of rhubarb gimlets, kimchi oysters, and much, much more.