Fantastic lunch the other day at Simply Red Bistro at La Tourelle Resort in Ithaca. The owner, Samantha Izzo, is a friend of a friend my dad’s sort of thing who makes incredible food! You’ve got to check out her website and of course sample her food next time you’re in the Finger Lakes. She has another restaurant at Sheldrake Point Vineyard in Ovid, NY. (I had the Cayuga Blue Harvest Pasta and it was wonderful all around; this coming from a person who usually has to think twice about blue cheese.)