About Billy Cross

I own a guesthouse on Gran Via, the main street of Barcelona. It is called Casa de Billy Barcelona. For 22 years I was the business partner and boyfriend of Michael James, the Chef and Cookbook writer. We founded and owned The Great Chefs of France Cooking School at the Robert Mondavi Winery in the Napa Valley of California. Michael died of AIDs on July 25, 1993.
I also live in Cuernavaca, Morelos, in the mountains of Central Mexico about 2 hours southwest of Mexico City and on the beach on the Pacific Coast of Mexico 1 hour north of Acapulco on a small island called Barra de Coyuca in the state of Guerrero.
I live with the Mexican Painter Joaquin Zagal Dominguez who is a very good cook. We spend the Spring and summer in Barcelona and the winter in Mexico. Cooking almost everyday and like everyone else trying to enjoy life and our friends.

Website

www.casabillybarcelona…

Location

Barcelona,Spain

Twitter Account

billycross

Favorite Foods

enchilidas suisas in green tomatillo sauce, roasted leg of lamb with sauce Pernod, paella with or without seafood, grilled fish and shrimp with roasted chiptole, American style apple pie, lemon merigune pie and almost anything chocolate

Favorite Food Writers

Julia Child, Simone Beck, Michael James, Madhur Jaffrey, Marion Cunningham, Marlene Sorosky Grey, Carlos Conrique Sandoval

Dream Dinner Guests

David McCorkle, Madhur Jaffrey, Marion Cunningham, Marlene Sorosky Grey, Jeannette Costieu, Carlos Conrique Sandoval, Juan Diego Michel, Michael James, Margrit Biever Mondavi, Olivier Gabriel Caizergues, Joaquin Zagal Dominguez, Bart d'Avila, Sue Creamer, Mme. Cecelia Chiang, Jeremiah Tower, John Goyak and Bill Staggs, Catherine Jacquard, Jerome Frazer, Gene Opton, Johanna Pearson, Ernesto Servin, Marta Saenz

I call myself a…

Hotel owner, antique dealer, interior designer, homestyle cook, gypsy