Kris in Beijing
Real Name:
Kristin [Kris] McCombe Winfield Baker
Location:
2004-2011 Beijing; 8/2011-present Woodbridge VA
Blog:
Best meal I ever ate:
An Austrian grandmother fed 25 sad and exhausted teens when our bus broke down near her place. Somewhere between Vienna and Innsbruk. Best mushroom soup Ever.
My current drink of choice:
Coke Zero. I cook with alcohol at times but don't drink
I really wish I could:
Reconcile my "plebeian" and "gourmet" tastes.
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
Stuffed eggs, with some type of unusual/ uncommon stuffing.
My favorite comfort food:
Pasta with sauce. Any ethnicity.
My most tattered cookbooks:
Once-A-Month Cooking, Wilson & Lagerborg; Beyond the Great Wall, Alford & Dugud; Sauces 2nd Ed, Peterson; Better Homes & Gardens Cook Book 1945; The Cook's Book, Norman.
