Monica Pope - T'afia
“As a chef, I have spent the last 15 years cooking in one place – Houston, Texas. My cooking style has developed organically from certain fundamental truths: first, what grows together goes together, and, second, that food simply tastes better when you eat where your food lives.”
Monica Pope is the Executive Chef and owner of t’afia, the Midtown eatery that celebrates all things local. She is a 2007 James Beard Award Nominee/Best Chef Southwest and the only Texas woman chef to be named a Top 10 Best New Chef by Food & Wine Magazine (1996).
Chef Pope is currently working on her first book, entitled Eating Hope and Other Things I’ve Had to Stomach, an insightful, poignant and humorous look at a woman’s place in the (restaurant) kitchen.
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