Paula Deen announced today that she has type 2 diabetes. The news was about as surprising as Meryl Streep winning her gajillionth acting award. Some things you can just see coming. I’m not here to pile on anyone’s health misfortune, but after what I saw … Read More →
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a happy and healthy holidays. I spent some time in New York and Massachusetts, ate a whole mess of food, and kicked off 2012 by cooking up a storm, including a pork and green chile stew and … Read More →
A hodgepodge of culinary thoughts… – Is DC becoming Manhattan-South? First Shake Shack and Serendipity arrived — now NY’s Bobby Flay is set to enter the fray with Bobby’s Burger Palace. What are your thoughts on Flay? Will you make a pilgrimage to try his … Read More →
One of my favorite DC blogs is Unsuck DC Metro. I check it every day, mainly for the sheer entertainment value of reading people vent about our beloved Metro, also known by its alias, “Delays in Both Directions.” Okay, that was a cheap shot. Truthfully, … Read More →
15 Valentine’s Day Ideas
This morning, while waiting for over an hour in the Woodley Park Metro — after which time, I eventually gave up, went above ground and grabbed a ride with a co-worker into the office — I overhead a woman asking her friend what she and … Read More →