pam h

Location:

DC

Best meal I ever ate:

was at a restuarant in a courtyard in sonoma -- possibly mustards. was my first experience with risotta (lobster mushroom) and ripe figs were plunging to the ground all around us. I was about 24.

My current drink of choice:

the honeysuckle at Jackson 20

I really wish I could:

(and hopefully will) have a small farm and inn and learn to make goat cheese!

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

short ribs in coffee, maple syrup and ancho chiles; potato cheese enchiladas; chipotle shrimp and corn with sweet potatoes and white potatoes and tomatillo salsa.

My favorite comfort food:

stilton cheese, comice pear and carr's wheat crackers

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

blue hill nyc; oyamel dc;rick's blue heaven in key west; mumtaz mahal in oman for fantastic indian food, and the market grill at eastern market DC for breakfast. also jimmy Ts, same meal.

My most tattered cookbooks:

the breakfast book, but that's because I was a breakfast chef for a law firm, so it got an uncommon amount of use. Joy of Cooking of course, and the original Silver Palate.