JH Jill

Location:

Jackson Heights

Best meal I ever ate:

Perhaps a family potluck in Lima, Peru that included a bowl of spicy blood!

My current drink of choice:

lulo en agua

I really wish I could:

spend a few months in soo many countries, exploring, eating, and learning to cook and practicing the language

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Appetizers: stuffed grape leaves or kookoo-yeh seeb zamini (Persion version of Spanish potato omelet), Main dish: arroz con pollo or fesanjan, Dessert: Zitronencreme

My favorite comfort food:

barbecue

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

La Bettola dei Marinai in Santa Tecla (Acireale, Sicily); Edelweiss, Madrid: Hunan, San Francisco; Sripraphai, Woodside NY; Virgil's, Manhattan

My most tattered cookbooks:

Time-Life Foods of the World series, California Junior League Cookbook