Kris in Beijing

Real Name:

Kristin [Kris] McCombe Winfield Baker

Location:

2004-2011 Beijing;<br /> 8/2011-present Woodbridge VA

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.