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.
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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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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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Wish I’d Been There! “Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party” Exhibit
Who doesn’t love the French Impressionists? And one of the best-known and beloved of their paintings is right here in Washington, DC: Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party. The Phillips Collection has organized an exhibition around their pride and joy, … Continue reading
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Tagged D.C., exhibit, Luncheon of the Boating Party, museum, Phillips Collection, Renoir, reporting, review
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Into the Wild Garlic Yonder
Way out on the outskirts of Olney, behind an unassuming, suburban house, lurks a vampire’s worst nightmare: the backyard garden of Jim and Mary Nupp, the demon garlic-growers of Brookeville. Debbie Amster, one of our favorite farmers market demo chefs, … Continue reading
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
Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Chocolate? Part 3: Far Afield
And the final outstanding chocolate event of 2016 was our visit to the Askinosie chocolate factory in Springfield, MO, on the way to Kansas City. If you look up “artisan chocolate maker” in the dictionary, Shawn Askinosie’s picture should be … Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Events, Product Review, Reporting
Tagged Askinosie, chocolate, reporting, Shawn Askinosie
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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
My Slanted Opinion and the Jade Night Market
There we were out in Portland, Oregon, on a eating and sightseeing jaunt, back in 2015, on the way to Spokane. We made a special effort to visit a street market in an Asian neighborhood, and it was well worth … Continue reading
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Tagged event, Jade International Night Market, Portland, Portland Jade District, reporting, The Slants
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The Business of Yum: YUMpreneurship at the University
How’s this for synergy: the business school of the University of Maryland stages an event to showcase local food entrepreneurs, providing an opportunity for b-school students to plan and promote it for course credit, and rising businesses to show off … Continue reading
Smithsonian Food History Weekend 2016: Bigger and Better, With Foodie Celebs – Part 2, Saturday: Food History Festival
“Deep-Dish Dialogs” was a fitting title to the Saturday program, with five intriguing personalities (and possibly a sixth, but I skipped the “Food on Film” talk to catch the rest of the festival). Jane and Michael Stern, authors of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Prud'homme, D.C., event, Jane and Michael Stern, Jessica Carbone, Julia Child, Kitchen Sisters, NMAH, reporting
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