Category Archives: Food Thoughts

I’m Paula Deen, Try My New Diabetes Drug, Y’all.

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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

Assorted Food Thoughts to Kick Off 2012

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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

First Edition of DC Random Food Thoughts

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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

If Restaurants Were Like Metro Escalators

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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

An Uneven “Forks Over Knives”

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It occurred to me about halfway through the new documentary Forks Over Knives that the movie was a disguised call to veganism.  The word is never uttered; instead they use the phrase “whole food, plant-based diet.” I’m imagining the filmmakers at a pitch meeting saying, … Read More