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Can you imagine DC cuisine without soft shells, crab cakes and crab pickin’? Neither can we! Calling all District foodies! FoodieTots and The Arugula Files will be co-hosting “Blog for the Bay” this Wednesday, April 22. Please join local food advocates on Earth Day and help rally District foodies to support clean water in the […]

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Part V of the Sustainable Family Supper series, and my submission to this week’s Fight Back Friday, hosted by the Food Renegade. It’s probably obvious by now that we are not vegetarians by any means. I actually did abstain from red meat for nearly 5 years during my idealistic youth (high school and college) for […]

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It’s been a rainy spring thus far in the Washington area, and I keep reminding myself that April showers bring May strawberries, June blueberries, and so on. Cherry blossoms have bloomed, and bringing even more reason for cheer, April marks the first re-openings of our area’s seasonal farmers markets. Last week saw the opening of […]

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If you’ve ever taken a close look at the lamb that floods the grocery stores around this time each year, you might have noticed that it nearly all comes from New Zealand or Australia. Even our neighborhood butcher, who sources most of his meat from here in Virginia, gets his lamb from outside the area.  […]

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Your favorite recipes of 2008 … 10 …Sesame Beef Stir-Fry 9 … Watermelon Gazpacho 8 … Creamy Apple Celery Soup 7 … Rainier Cherry Glazed Pork Chops 6 … Organic Spiced Cranberry Sauce 5 … Zesty Green Beans Almondine 4 … Zucchini Tagliatelle Alfredo 3 … Pork Chops with Rhubarb Barbecue Sauce 2 … Cranberry […]

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