Well, the Cookography staff just grew by one. Carolyn and I had a beautiful baby girl last week, named Elena. Posts may slow down a little as we get used to this new eater and her demanding feeding schedule. We will keep Cookography going though and promise not to have too many baby food related [...]

One of the great benefits of living in DC are all the unexpected adventures. The opening of a farmers’ market two block from my office ends up being a press event with First Lady Michelle Obama, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and DC Mayor Adrian Fenty showing up…along with plenty of metal detectors and trench-coated Secret [...]

(So there, the title really says it all. This is a simple and refreshing way to enjoy the summer. All you have to do is add some cucumber slices to a pitcher of cold, filtered water. Let it sit for a couple of hours and you have one of the most refreshing summer drinks there [...]

5 pigs, 5 chefs, 5 wineries and 1 cause. All set in a town that knows a little bit about pork…One event will forever tie them together! <Queue dramatic music> Cochon 555! This was a great event that we were fortunate enough to attend, thanks to Foodbuzz! Cochon 555 was put together by Taste Network to [...]

Here are some food events we plan on checking out this weekend: COCHON 555 – This should be a pork filled event this Sunday in DC. It is at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. There will be 5 chefs cooking up 5 pigs in different ways, all vying for the title Prince of Pork. More information is [...]

Ever since our trip to Greece we have been big fans of Greek-style yogurt. And we have always been huge fans of gifts. So when Stonyfield Farms sent us coupons for free yogurt we were super excited. Instead of hoarding all this goodness, we thought it would be nice to share. Unfortunately we are not [...]

First, a disclaimer: We don’t have cable, so we don’t watch Top Chef on a regular basis. Sometimes we watch it at the gym though, and back when we had cable we watched Season 1 and 2. But, nonetheless, a celebrity sighting is always cool, especially when they come to your neighborhood! Spike Mendelsohn, Season 4, [...]

Ga-wow, this is very amazing! I just found out that you can watch all of Season 1 of Made in Spain online. If you remember correctly we are slightly obsessed and own both Season 1 and 2. However, for anyone out there who has yet to watch, give it a try! It is available on Hulu.com [...]

This year we decided to come up with a list of culinary resolutions. It is really a list of things we keep meaning to get around to, but need to publish the list to make sure we actually do. Anyhow, I just wanted to do a quick update on how we are doing and an also [...]

If you look at the right hand side of the page you will see an icon for FoodBuzz. They are our Buds. I am a FoodBuzz Featured Publisher, which means they think I am cool and they send us fun things. In return I have a FoodBuzz badge on Cookography because I think they are [...]

Last year we brought you The Best of Cookography 2007 and we wouldn’t let you down this year. Presenting: The Best of Cookography 2008! We have collected some of our favorite recipes from the last year and compiled them into a nice looking PDF. Print it out and add it to your cookbook shelf. The Best [...]

We have already professed our love of Jose Andres – his restaurants, his food, his TV show etc. Well, between our birthdays (November and January) and Christmas we’re pretty much set with Jose Andres paraphernalia. Carolyn got the Made in Spain season 1 and 2 DVDs for her birthday from her brother. Then, we were watching [...]

Happy New Year! It is amazing that another year has come and gone. Carolyn and I had a lot of fun this past year and made a lot of tasty dishes. There are a lot of dishes, however, we wanted to try to make, but never got around to. To help make sure we branch [...]

Last year we put together The Best of Cookography 2007, which is a PDF booklet of our favorite recipes from 2007. We sent it around to our friends and family instead of a holiday card. Well it is already that time of year again, and we are working on the 2008 version. Instead of us [...]

I have been meaning to make a list of all our favorite cooking tools for a while. I keep remembering things to add so I will keep adding things to this list. And if you buy any of these fun items from Amazon through these links, they kick a little back to us, which we [...]

Carolyn scored big last night and got us tickets to the Taste of Chicago preview held at the Library of Congress in DC. First off, the Library of Congress is a beautiful building. If you are ever in DC you owe it to yourself to take a tour. Ok, now on to the food! The [...]

It was tough work, but we went through Cookography and selected our favorite recipes. These are the recipes from ‘07 that we think of and say “YUM!” Web Version – 1.4mb Print Version – 6.2mb Here are the recipes that made the cut for The Best of Cookopgrahy: 2007 German Style, Soft Pretzels Pan Seared, Thick Cut Steak Heirloom Tomato [...]

Being able to walk out the door and around the corner to get to my local market has been a real treat. It is always a bit of an adventure, you are never quite sure what will be peaking. This week the tomatoes were king. One farm was quoting that 10 different types were available. Organic [...]

A fun trip to the beach prevented me from making it the Adams Morgan Farmers’ Market (is it Farmers’ or Farmer’s?, anyhow…). I was back with a vengeance this Saturday though. Tomatoes are definitely hitting full stride. The heirloom were finally peaking, and man are they good. I also got a pint of cherry and [...]

I try to go to my local Farmer’s Market in Adams Morgan every Saturday, but plans always seem to get in the way. I was lucky, and made it this week. Things are definitely starting to shape up. There was a lot less squash and a lot more tomatoes. I got a bunch of [...]

Fast Company has an in depth article on the impact that bottled water has. It brings to question the practicality of shipping a bottle of water half way around the world. In most cases it takes a staggering amount of energy to bottle and ship water, and it ends up being of no better [...]

 Food 101, Washington Post’s long running food science column, is calling it quits. Food 101 was a great column written by Robert L. Wolke that answered food questions with a bit a science and a lot of wit. Wolke’s writing was always very accesible but he never dumbed things down and always got to the [...]

Here are all the good food articles I have come across recently: The Washington Post has a pretty in depth look at imported Garlic. Apparently the FDA and USDA do a pretty poor job of examining food imports. They go on to look at garlic imports, and how they have increased over the years. They also [...]

Carolyn and I made the Greek Shrimp again last week. It came out really good this time too. I had a couple of thoughts on how to make it better though. It is probably best to add the parsley at the very in and stir it in off the heat. Most leafy herbs like parsley [...]

Man! I like the Washington Post’s food section and all but… The New York Time’s food section kicks some butt. Here is the gold I found when I stopped by there this week: The economics of being a chef, and how more and more of the big name chefs are getting their pay from sponsorship than [...]

The Washington Post’s food section is sometimes hit or miss. This weeks focus is on coffee and there are a number of good articles: Learn how to evaluate or “cup”, a cup of coffee – Link Learn how coffee beans get from the tree to your kitchen – Link Finally learn how the different DC area coffee shops rank [...]

This week’s Washington Post Food & Dining section has some interesting reading: A collection of Dinner Salad Recipes that look like that would make a great summer dinner. The hotter it gets, the less I want to turn on the stove and these recipes seem like a good solution! Tom brings us news that Black’s Bar & [...]

Here is what has been getting my eyeball time around the web. Ask Tom – The Post’s food critic, Tom Sietsema, confirms what I have long suspected in his weekely chat; the Food Network is no longer cool. There are some well placed jabs at the skinny Italian chica ( who annoys me greatly by using [...]

I haven’t been posting much from the Post lately… not because I am lazy (no really!), but because I haven’t been seeing much more than one or two interesting articles in the Food & Dinning section. It is the peak of the DC tomato season and here are ten tomato tips… and tomato recipes. There is a [...]