blue socks

Real Name:

Melissa

Location:

Jamaica Plain (Boston)

Blog:

http:// http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesocks78/sets/72157600012569165/

Best meal I ever ate:

DiFara Pizza Brooklyn, Cambodian Cuisine in Fort Greene Brooklyn (now closed--moved to Harlem I think), Shundeez (Persian) in Northwest Philadelphia

My current drink of choice:

Harpoon UFO--I am now a beer drinker!

I really wish I could:

have Anthony Bourdain's job

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

I'm casual, so creative homemade pizzas (using Trader Joe's bagged pizza dough--$2.99!)

My favorite comfort food:

almost anything on the menu at the James Gate

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

my top 5 local are: 1. Oriental De Cuba (JP) 2. Rani (Coolidge Corner) 3. Khao Sarn (Coolidge Corner) 4. various Chinatown eateries--esp. Vietnamese! 5.Sabur--Teal Square (Somerville)

My most tattered cookbooks:

PA Dutch cookbook