The Fear of Raw Ingredients
My generation was raised to fear cookie dough. Salmonella could lurk in every rubber spatula, and terrible things would befall the child who ate a bite of a raw confection. Only baking could render the dough safe. Thanks to the recall of millions of eggs from Iowa’s Hillandale farms and Wright County Egg this past [...]
Sticky Rice, I’m Stuck on You
In DC, is there a place you can go where everyone knows your name in sign? (Okay, sorry for the lame attempt at trying to re-create the spirit of the theme song from “Cheers” … Where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see, our troubles [...]
Munchies! Munch-Munch!
Even as our esteemed blogger, Chris, laments the proliferation of fakefood and frankenfood in our grocery stores, D.C. residents appear to be in the throes of a spectulative upscale grocery store bubble. Yesterday, DCist covered Columbia Heights residents’ too-desperate push for a new Whole Foods store in their neighborhood (which would be less than two [...]
Restaurant Waiter Instructions
One of the nice pleasures of eating out in D.C. is the likely happenstance that your waiter has probably served a table with deaf people before. So you’re safe. You don’t have to work on “educating” the waiter or just mumble along, pretending to understand the specials and instead go straight to the entree menu. [...]