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.
Author Archives: Judy
Chocolate And Cicadas, Together At Last: Chouquette’s Very Seasonal Specialty
Starting in 2021 with our local Brood X experience, Sarah Dwyer designed a gift box including her classic bonbons, molded cicadas filled with marshmallow creme in either milk or dark chocolate, an enamel pin, sticker, and greeting card. And! Six actual, chocolate-covered insects, each about an inch and a half long and looking just like oblong blobs. Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Product Review, Reporting
Tagged chocolate, Chouquette, cicada, reporting, review, Sarah Dwyer
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Red February: Guinness For Lunar New Year, and So Much Merch
Wow. So much going on this month, and so much of it red! Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Events, Product Review, Reporting
Tagged event, Guinness, Guinness Luck of the Dragon, Harris Teeter, reporting, review, Valentines Day
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Mincemeat, Smoked Salmon and So Much Booze: The Seafarer Review
Four comrades meet for a poker party one Christmas Eve night, with a stranger invited to make up the number for five-card draw. Continue reading
Posted in Events, Media Review, Reporting
Tagged review, Round House Theatre, The Seafarer
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Jingle Berry, Jingle Merry: Smirnoff Limited Edition Vodka for Holiday Cheer
‘Tis the season for all sorts of special holiday versions of old favorite brands. And so, the merry elves at Taylor Strategies have sent along a Limited Edition of Smirnoff vodka to sample. Continue reading
Strutting and Fretting and Grilling and Eating
Since it’s a well-known fact that Shakespeare adapted the plots of existing plays for his own masterworks, no shade should be cast on Fat Ham’s playwright James Ijames for lifting the plot and major characters from Hamlet. What he builds on this scaffolding is all his own, totally enjoyable, and even a little profound. Continue reading
Posted in Media Review, Reporting
Tagged Fat Ham, Hamlet, reporting, review, Shakespeare, Studio Theatre
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Indistinguishable From Magic: Koji Up Close
Although far less familiar in the West, koji has been the foundation of Japanese cuisine for centuries. It’s rice (or another starch) inoculated with the fungus Aspergillus oryzae, and it’s the basic ingredient for soy sauce, sake, miso, rice vinegar and many other products. Now koji has become the trendy plaything of chefs all over the world. Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Eating, Events, Reporting
Tagged Carla Hall, cooking, event, koji, Les Dames D'Escoffier, Noma, Rene Redzepi, reporting, sake
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Holey Socks, Holy Smokes!
The success of a two-hander play depends on two things: the script and the relationship between the two players. In The Mountaintop, one sex has a slight advantage: she’s literally heavenly. Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Events, Media Review, Reporting
Tagged event, Martin Luther King jr, review, Round House Theatre, The Fourth Wall, The Mountaintop
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Think Inc. When Viewing Ink at Round House
What do you think of when you think of Rupert Murdoch? A ruthless businessman who runs a billion-dollar world-wide publishing empire? But did you know he acquired a rundown newspaper in 1969 and turned it into the best-selling tabloid in Britain inside of a year? Ink is that story. Continue reading
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Tagged event, reporting, Round House Theatre
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Synergy and Serendipity at the National Book Festival
The National Book Festival attracted throngs of book-lovers to the Washington Convention Center. I was one of them. Continue reading