I was at an Indian food restaurant called Poppy in Seattle and I got a little hysterical over it. They made pre-made selected plates. I think the highlight for me was an eggplant French fry with lavender honey.

That’s Jewel, the singer and actress (Who will saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave your soul?), responding to a CNN Eatocracy interviewer who asked her about the last meal that made her cry. A commenter on the post got pedantic about Jewel calling the food “pre-made,” and about the fact that Poppy isn’t technically an Indian restaurant. Fair points, but why quibble with compliments? Jewel loves Poppy and so do we.

Meanwhile it seems Don Curtiss, chef at Ballard neighborhood favorite Volterra, will travel to L.A. this weekend to chef a party celebrating the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award winner. SAG is honoring actor Ernest Borgnine, whose daughter ate at Volterra while visiting Seattle in 2006 and wound up smitten with the Tuscan-inspired fare—so smitten, in fact, she asked that Curtiss and his wife Michelle Quisenberry make the food on her father’s big night. The couple will give a cooking demo and serve small plates including wild boar tenderloin to invitees at a poolside party celebrating Borgnine’s award.