If I were someone from the past, I would love to eat with Leonardo da Vinci. As a Renaissance man it would be an opportunity to learn how his mind worked.
If it is someone of the present, I would lean towards Javier Sierra, a writer whom I have admired for decades and who also has a privileged mind and spectacular narrative skills.
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Interesting choices! Leonardo would also have quite a bit to say about how your meal should be prepared. How about red shrimp with burrata, and a dessert of apricots with mint?
Source: https://italoamericano.org/leonardos-kitchen/
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Oh, yes! I knew his culinary knowledge and that he was owned a “restaurant” with Botticelli. But your link discovers to me his vegetarian diet. 😃 I wouldn't mind trying that menu. 😋
Da Vinci would be a very interesting choice. I wouldn't mind exchanging some words with him as well :-)
There would be no lack of topics of conversation, like a good polymath. Although he had a peculiar character, hehe.