• 26Oct

    The Culinary Historians of Washington Are Pleased to Present…

    In my inbox.

    -JAY
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    The Culinary Historians of Washington Are Pleased to Present

    Dr. Katherine Leonard Turner

    The Bakery, the Saloon, and the Quick
    Lunch: Ready to Eat Food in Working-Class
    Neighborhoods, 1880-1930

    To be held in:

    Sunday, November 14, 2010
    2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

    Bethesda/Chevy Chase Regional Services Center
    Meeting Room A
    4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, MD

    We might think we’ re the first generation to depend on fast food, but urban Americans
    were getting it “ to go” more than 100 years ago! In her talk, “ The Bakery, the Saloon,
    and the Quick Lunch: Ready to Eat Food in Working-Class Neighborhoods, 1880-1930,”
    Katie will discuss the surprising number of options people had for buying food already
    cooked, long before McDonalds.

    Katherine Leonard Turner is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Philadelphia
    University who studies the effects of industrialization on home cooking. Katie is
    interested in how Americans understood this daily work that more than any other
    household task, carried emotional, cultural, and social weight, and was intimately bound
    with ideas about gender.

    for more information, contact Claudia Kousoulas
    301-320-6979 appetite@kousoulas.com
    www.chowdc.org

    This is a free event, no reservations necessary.

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  • 28Aug

    Dc Food Trucks: Pizza, Cupcakes, Lobster. And…Absinthe Update!

    3 Trucks were at the DC State fair today: DC Slices, Curbside Cupcake and the Sweet Flow Mobile (Sweet Green’s frozen yogurt). I didn’t get to Sweet Green’s truck, but I’ve tried their product at the storefront.

    I tried a slice ($4) and it needed more cheese (and to be served hotter)–it was alright for having come from a truck, but not great. The sauce was it’s strength. The person with me didn’t like the crust. I’d try it again. They were also out of everything but plain slices.

    I tried the lemon cupcake ($3) from Curbside and it was good…with the lemon cupcake and lemon frosting bringing different flavors and textures. Thumbs up.

    In other food truck news…The Red Hook Lobster Pound Truck will be at Chinatown Coffee this Thursday evening 9/2 for a happy hour from 630pm-830pm. That is…lobster rolls at 5th and H NW! Chinatown coffee will be offering $3 Lagunitas IPA and Dale’s Pale Ale. I’d love to see more events like this.

    Absinthe preparation at Chinatown Coffee

    BTW, Chinatown Coffee has several varieties of absinthe which they mix with water, sugar, and fire…it was like watching a ritual. 🙂 What’s a little toxin and psychoactive substance among friends? 🙂 BTW, I like anise…and I still didn’t like the absinthe I tried at Chinatown Coffee, but the variety I tried was herbal.  Next time Ill try the Swiss one.

    -JAY

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  • 20Aug

    DC State Fair Pickle Contest! Update: Big Veggie Contest!

    Update:

    Enter Your Big (or big-ish) Vegetable in the Biggest Vegetable Contest!

    Is that a five pound melon sitting in your garden? What about a foot long zucchini? A football sized pumpkin? Why aren’t you entering your vegetables in the DC State Fair Biggest Vegetable Contest, sponsored by Washington Gardener? More…
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    In My Inbox.
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    -JAY

    DC Picklers – Show Us Your Best Pickle

    Green beans. Cucumbers. Beets. Is there anything that isn’t improved with a good pickling brine?

    Well it’s time for DC picklers to show us what you’ve got. Do you have a delicious bread and butter pickle recipe that’s wowed your friends? Do you pickle your own onions to serve on sandwiches? Do you make your own kimchi? Enter your sour, salty, and/or sweet pickled creations in the DC State Fair Home-Made Pickle contest. Many thanks to GLiTTARAZZi, a DC-based social and gossip blog, for sponsoring. The winner will win a $50 gift certificate to 19th.

    You can enter the DC State Fair Home Made Pickle Contest here. While we’d love to know if your pickled items were grown in the District, it’s not a requirement of the contest. The deadline for entries is Thursday, August 26, so get your pickles going today!

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  • 18Aug

    DC State Fair Kick-Off Shindig and Homebrew Contest

    In My Inbox.

    -JAY
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    Come to the DC State Fair Kick-Off Shindig and Homebrew Contest – August 27! (Click there for the active links.)

    dcstatefair | August 18, 2010 at 4:03 am | Categories: dc state fair | URL: http://wp.me/pZQTt-2z

    Thanks to The Black Squirrel for sponsoring the DC State Fair Homebrew Contest!
    What: DC Homebrewers Contest
    When: Friday, Aug. 27, 7:30 – 10 pm
    Where: 1314 Kenyon St. NW

    To Enter: Fill out this entry form by August 23.

    DC’s become a paradise for beer lovers in the past few years, and we had to give DC homebrewers the chance to prove who brews the best brew at the DC State Fair.

    Join us on August 27th from 7:30 to 10:00 pm at 1314 Kenyon St. NW for a kick-off party and homebrew contest, sponsored by The Black Squirrel (the fabulous neighborhood beer bar in Adams Morgan). The judging begins at 8:00 pm sharp – you won’t want to miss it!

    If that’s not enough for you, Fat Man After Dark, another fair sponsor, will be broadcasting live from the Contest.

    Do you have a passion for homebrewing? There’s still time to submit your beer to the contest, so enter now. The deadline for homebrew entries is August 23.

    Good luck to all the homebrewers out there! We know you’ll make the District proud.
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