What It Means
Catillation is an obsolete word meaning: to lick one's plate. It has nothing to do with cats, except that they catillate quite a bit.
Category Archives: Events
It Never Gets Old 2: The Fancy Food Show, 2017 Edition Part 2: The Parties
Off-site parties are a fixture of the Show. We attended two outstanding ones: the French Pavilion cocktail party, and the wonderful Urbani truffle cruise. There were many delicious tidbits at the French party, including jambon de Bayonne, with jolly jambonniers … Continue reading
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Tagged caviar, cidre, Fancy Food Show, France, jambon, Parties, prosciutto, reporting, Urbani Truffles
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It Never Gets Old: The Fancy Food Show, 2017 Edition Part 1: The Show Floor
There were many new things to write about at this year’s show, as well as lots of those tried-and-true features which I look for from years past. I once again found myself spending lots of time in the Italian pavilion. … Continue reading
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Tagged Berry Bible, chefs, Emmanuel Piqueras, event, Fancy Food Show, Fiasconaro, Italy, Jewish, Matzo Project, Rao's, reporting, Rosanna Di Michele, Sabor y Fusion, Stroopwafel
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The Apple, the Coffeepot, the Chef, and the Artist
The prolific artist Paul Cezanne’s most well-known paintings are arguably his still-lifes and landscapes, yet he produced about 160 portraits over his career. The National Gallery of Art has gathered 60 of them into a fascinating exhibit which provides a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cezanne, Christopher Curtis, D.C., exhibit, National Gallery of Art, Starr Catering Group
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The Pastrami You Meet In Heaven
Food is Love: a sentiment no one would dispute, so true that there could hardly be room for discussion. Yet, this simple statement contains multitudes – and drives family dynamics. It can certainly sustain a two-hour play, and there’s a … Continue reading
What You Need, and Need to Know: USBevX 2018
Last year, I went to the trade show of USBevX, the U.S. Wine & Beverage Industry Expo. It was both fun and enlightening. Read about it here. This year, I will be attending some of the sessions geared towards winemaker … Continue reading
From Farm To Fabulous
Celebrate the end of a very long winter and enjoy nature’s bounty! Friends of the Olney Farmers and Artists Market invites you to join us for behind the scenes, exclusive tours of four of our most fabulous farms. The events … Continue reading
The Care and Feeding of Farmers: Future Harvest CASA’s 19th Annual Conference
They provide our basic foodstuffs. They grow a dazzling variety of fruits and vegetables. They use their bounty to create tasty and nourishing products that enrich our lives. They grow “non-commercial” or “specialty” crops: what we actually put on our … Continue reading
It’s All About the Products
The notice for this year’s Arcadia Farmer-Chef Speed-Sourcing Happy Hour reminded me that I needed to post about last year’s event. There was also a similar (but less structured) happening later in the year, so I thought I would combine them … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcadia Farmer Chef Speed Sourcing, Askinosie, Blue Bottle Coffee, Cafe Kreyol, Caputo Brothers, D.C., Dolcezza Gelati, event, Good Food Mercantile, J. Q. Dickinson Salt Works, Nathan Miller Chocolate, OFAM, Oliver Farm, Point Reyes Cheese, reporting, Sugar Bobs Smoked Maple Syrup, True Syrup, Victoria Amory, Zekes Coffee, Zingermans
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Lights On In Baltimore: Food Lab@Light City 2017
Climbing the stairs to the second floor space of IMET Columbus Center, on a pier of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, I was worried that this event would be a generator of monotonous visuals – just one set of folks talking after … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, chefs, Danielle Nierenberg, event, Jeff Henderson, Light City Baltimore, Marcus Samuelsson, Spike Gjerde, Woodberry Kitchen
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