This Saturday, June 13, Washington DC’s first Kids’ Restaurant Week kicks off with a day of kids-cooking demos and other fun at historic Eastern Market. Kids’ Restaurant Week, June 13-21, is sponsored by Cookie and Gourmet, my two favorite magazines, and took place last year in New York and Chicago. This year, they bring the […]
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Kids Restaurant Week in the District
June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: eatLocalDC · food news · PSA · restaurants
Mercury, Salmonella and Nitrates, Oh My
January 30th, 2009 · 9 Comments
It’s been quite a week for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). I had planned to write about organic farming as the next installment of our Sustainable Family Supper Project, but got waylaid reading everything I could get my hands (or mouse) on about the latest high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) shocker. (Check back Monday […]
Tags: food for thought · food news · food politics · food safety
Slow Food Cliff Notes
September 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Slow Food Cliff Notes
While CNN may have been distracted by some political events taking place in Denver and Minneapolis, all eyes in the locavore world were on San Francisco this past weekend, where Slow Food Nation attempted to show the world what eating real food means. Slow Food International was founded in Italy as a protest to the […]
Tags: food news · food politics
So long, Salmon…
April 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
whole foods frozen salmon, originally uploaded by foodietots. No sooner had I selected salmon as my March ingredient, than I began to read the scary news of the threatened Chinook salmon run in California. Sure enough, last week came the official notice that salmon season is closed for the year. Apparently oblivious to the irony, […]
Tags: fish · food news · ingredients
