Mona Williams
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Real Name:
Desdemona
Location:
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
Best meal I ever ate:
A veggie plate composed of side dishes at Brasserie Beck in DC
My current drink of choice:
Horton Vineyards (Orange County, VA) vintage port
I really wish I could:
be having a tartine and cafe au lait in Paris right now
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
a spicy bean soup using local yellow-eye beans that is based on a recipe I got from the New York Times and that I serve with homemade 7-grain bread
My favorite comfort food:
homemade bread with Earth Balance vegan margarine
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
the restaurant across the street from me (Francesca's), that makes everything, including potato chips, on-site, and won't serve ice cream because they can't make it themselves; the old Galileo in DC; The Tabard Inn in DC; The Little Grill in Harrisonburg; Rasika in DC
My most tattered cookbooks:
Deborah Madison's Greens; Epicurious; my own scrapbooks of recipes collected over the years
