David Cook in This Week’s Rolling Stone

By C.J. JANOVY

This week’s issue of Rolling Stone has an interview with American Idol winner and Blue Springs native David Cook. Among the fascinating revelations: at a “glitzy restaurant on the south tip of Manhattan’s Central Park,” Cook is “scared” of foie gras on toast, drowning out the taste with a Sprite, and refuses to eat “a delicate flan of pureed peas.” Cook also shows his “gnawed fingernails.” Although Cook seems out of place in New York City, he has fond memories of going to Royals games and performing his first audition, a second-grade try-out for a cowboy-themed Christmas pageant. And learning his first instrument, the violin, because he liked a girl in the orchestra. Read the interview here.