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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Freud famously said. But is food really ever just food? What we eat links us (directly or not) to the land where the food was grown and the people who grew and processed it. It can also point us...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 5 days 14 hours 23 minutes ago
Swiss chard is a healthy, hearty green that is a nutritional powerhouse with a delicate flavor.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 days 17 hours 23 minutes ago
Cupcake lovers, rejoice. For six weeks, we're taste-testing and scoring cupcakes from two bakeries a week, choosing one from each place as our favorite. For the budget-conscious, we're also weighing them and calculating price per ounce. After visiting a dozen bakeries, we'll stack up the...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 2 days 20 hours 22 minutes ago
How does your favorite restaurant rate on the health scale? When Arlene Lopez and Sonya Enoch walk into a restaurant, it's like your mother-in-law dropping in unannounced. Except these two snoops are armed with flashlights, thermometers and keen eyes for "fresh, black and pointy rodent droppings."...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 days 15 hours 23 minutes ago
Local wines and local food will be featured at a dinner Oct. 16 sponsored by Les Dames d'Escoffier in the Willard Room of the Willard InterContinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Four Virginia wineries (DelFosse, Michael Shaps, Chrysalis and Barboursville) and their winemakers will be...(more)
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Shenandoah National Park has 6,000 white-tailed deer, several hundred black bears, 200 bird species, 47 kinds of ferns and mosses and 100 sorts of trees whose film-friendly October colors lure thousands to Skyline Drive. But once again this fall, travelers will find that the park's...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 days 1 hour 23 minutes ago
The state has rightfully become known for its floral-scented Viognier and its peppery cabernet franc. But it is also beginning to find its own expression in chardonnay: something in between the oaky, buttery style of California and the taut, mineral voice of Burgundy. There is...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 days 1 hour 23 minutes ago
An occasional series in which staff members share a recipe that we turn to time and again. After studying Spanish for five straight hours every day in Antigua, Guatemala, this past summer, I was always starving. When classes let out, at 1 p.m., I was...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 days 2 hours 23 minutes ago
Farmers markets continue to sprout throughout the region, grocery stores tout produce "from around here," and community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs bring food directly from farm to table. We feel virtuous supporting local farmers and reducing the "carbon footprint" of our food because it travels shorter...(more)
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On any given weekday afternoon after school lets out, the Broad Branch Market's bulk candy counter is two feet deep with grade schoolers clamoring for malted milk balls and licorice whips while their parents are steps away, ordering dinner at the deli counter. It sounds...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 5 days 16 hours 23 minutes ago
Several new burger joints, including one opened by the Food Network star Bobby Flay, are judged for their burgers, fries, onion rings and milkshakes.
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