Trite but this came to me the other night. Dead heroes, who would you like to share a meal with?
Hunter S. Thompson
Jack Kerouac
John Lennon
Anthony Bourdain
There's some nice lists here. If we were really sharing a meal, I'd want the food to be the focus, and the conversation to germinate organically from our taste buds. So in that case, I think of:
Alice Waters
José Andrés
Anthony Bourdain (miss seeing him)
Charlie Trotter (really miss him)
But if conversation were the focus, maybe over a 25 year old Glenlivet and a good Cuban, I'd want:
David Hume
Thomas Paine
Robert Green Ingersoll
Mark Twain
Maya Angelou
Willa Cather
Walter Cronkite
Eleanor Roosevelt
My Dad
Florence Nightingale
Marie Curie
Justice Bertha Wilson