“Bacon cereal.” “Bacon lollipop.” “Bacon spaghetti.” “Bacon bread.” “Bacon coffee.” “Bacon beer.”
In a sane world, none of these exact phrases would return any hits when plugged into Google. This is not a sane world.
WE’LL KEEP IT SHORT and sweet: Losing weight, saving money and learning a new language are old hat. This year, resolve to challenge your palate and try something new. We have a handy checklist for adventurous diners to refer to over the course of 2009, with options here for vegetarians as well as carnivores. Happy eating!
Pizza, bulgogi, gumbo and edamame on the streets of D.C.? It seems the capital is finally nearing the tipping point for great street food.
SIGH — association people. You know, those people who sit on the various food or dish councils have to keep themselves in business somehow. Where else could National Mushroom Month have come from? But wait — these mycological marvels may really deserve a celebration.
Ferial Welsh — aka “The Mushroom Lady” — can tell you about [...]
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING at the West End farmer’s market, before it gets too hot, shoppers strolling from stall to stall can take their pick of bok choy, bell peppers, and Ozark plums.
The usual suspects are here: joggers with dogs, women with armloads of flowers wrapped in newspaper, and at the far end, Sara Guerre explains [...]
“Is there somewhere around here I can get a quick lunch, like a half-smoke, maybe?” The question catches the man pushing his Fayette Street door open for fresh air off-guard.
“Sure, there’s a Five Guys two blocks that way.”
Are you kidding me? You live three blocks from the greatest, oldest, stubbornest carryout in all of Alexandria, [...]
Combine a passion for food, a love of history and a freshly minted MBA and what do you get? Mostly, a very full stomach.
The new DC Metro Food Tours takes tourists and locals on gastronomically oriented walking tours of D.C. hot spots. The company so far focuses on Old Town Alexandria, but the owner has [...]
D.C. GOT A WEST COAST-STYLE infusion last Friday with the grand opening of Tangysweet (2029 P St. NW). Like SoCal’s Pinkberry, the secret to this frozen yogurt’s appeal is that it’s tangy, not sugary-sweet — it tastes like real, non-frozen yogurt. Fans rave about toppings, which include everything from fruit to almonds to Cocoa Pebbles. [...]
SO, YOU FELL ASLEEP while riding Metro to the Pentagon City mall and woke up at the end of the yellow line. Construction cranes, heaps of dirt, the Beltway just visible in the distance — where the heck are you?
Welcome to Huntington.
Don’t hop back on Metro just yet, either. Despite the Alexandria neighborhood’s unappealing first [...]
Carl Dodge, roastmaster at M.E. Swing Co., stands watch by an enormous Probat coffee roaster. A mechanical arm rakes through 100 pounds of beans; each batch takes about 15 minutes. Elsewhere in the South Pickett Street facility, workers bag coffee by hand. Burlap sacks of beans lay in neat stacks.
Mark Warmuth, president of the company, [...]