Capital Living

Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.)

by Betsy Rothstein - 10/26/07 7:06 PM ET

Coffee or tea: Coffee

Sweet or salty: Sweet

Favorite place to power lunch: Members Dining Room

Favorite restaurant in D.C.: Montmartre on Capitol Hill

Cooking specialty: “Wild game — venison, dove, quail and wild turkey.”

Favorite candy: Chocolate

Ever gotten food poisoning? “It’s been a long time. Yes. I think it was a lobster in Maine.”

What is a food that you dislike? “I have a problem with loving all food. You can put liver down.”

If you were to invite five people to dinner, who would they be? “Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, [who was] a German theologian. He was a pacifist that joined the resistance and tried to assassinate Hitler.”

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