Louisa Edwards's Nine Rules for Seducing a Nerd With Food

I have made it no secret that there are any number of chefs on my laminated list. We've already talked about Eric Ripert, and no joke, I dreamt about Anthony Bourdain last night. Minds out of the gutter, team...it wasn't naughty (sadly). We were just hanging out, smoking Gauloises (I haven't smoked in years, but it was a dream, so it was still cool and I wasn't getting cancer).

Anyway...my obsession with chefs makes me a complete and utter sucker for the food romance. You know the ones...they...