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She Deserves a Big Tip: Waitress, the Musical

Waitress at the National Theatre is the touring version of the Broadway musical, from the 2007 film of the same name.  As the play’s plot is identical to the movie’s, it’s no spoiler to reveal that this feel-good show has … Continue reading

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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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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

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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

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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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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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Food and Design and Food and Spain and Food: Eat Spain Up!

An Exhibit and Series of Events sponsored by SPAIN arts & culture For the cover of a book by Freud, two walnuts skewered on an awl.  For the cover of Andre Gide’s Fruits of the Earth, a portrait of Gide … Continue reading

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Old Friends and New at the 2016 Summer Fancy Food Show, Part 2: Ham Obsession

This year, I decided to undertake a photo-essay of the many legs of cured pork being carefully slivered in the cause of delicious.  I didn’t come close to capturing them all, but I made a dent. Here was a Jamon … Continue reading

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Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Chocolate? Part 2: Where The Pros Go

Chocolate event the second: Elevate Chocolate, a semiannual gathering for chocolate professionals held the day before the Fancy Food Show, by the Fine Chocolate Industry Association.  In the summer of 2016, at a hotel off Times Square, an afternoon and … Continue reading

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Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Chocolate? Part 1: The Local Show

The short answer: No.  I have about 1,400 words around the long answer. In 2016, three events stood out as potential chocolate overloads.  Fortunately, none managed to quell my love of the dark stuff, but not through lack of trying. … Continue reading

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