The Culinary Inquisition with Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)

Coffee or tea? Coffee.

Salty or sweet? Salty.

What’s a food you can’t live without? I’ve found that there are foods that I thought I couldn’t live without that I can now live without — things like corn tortillas, apricot pie, coffee ice cream.

Where’s your favorite place to power-lunch? I don’t really power-lunch. I usually have a salad from the Longworth cafeteria or the members’ buffet.

What’s your favorite D.C. restaurant? I don’t go out that much, but if I have family in town or something, we’ll go to The Monocle.

Have you ever gotten food poisoning? No.

What’s your cocktail or drink of choice? Red wine is good for you.

What’s your cooking specialty? I love to cook. I like to make Chinese food. Every year I enter a baked good in the Fourth of July bake-off, and sometimes I win blue ribbons.

Do you have any food allergies? No.

What is a food you can’t stomach? Organs. Okra.

What’s your favorite candy? My late mother used to make this chocolate toffee … It is great.

What’s your favorite pig-out food? I no longer allow myself to pig out.

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