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Vint Cerf & Jose Andres – DC Rocks!

If you haven’t figured it out by now, we sort of think Jose Andres is awesome. A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to catch a talk given by Jose Andres & Vint Cerf (the guy who helped invent the internet). The talk was at Google DC, the place were Vint works, and […]
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Adams Morgan Jumbo Slice

We live in Adams Morgan in Washington, DC. It is a neighborhood better known for its bars than its restaurants. It does have one culinary distinction, the jumbo slice; which is a really large slice of pizza. Right now you are probably saying, “Hah, I have had a large slice of pizza”. Truth is though, […]
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Cornmeal Currant Biscotti via Julia

While thumbing through the pretty awesome channel selection we get with our HD Antenna (Thank you PBS Create and MHZ!) I happened to catch an episode Julia Child focusing on Italian. The recipe that really caught my eye was for cornmeal currant biscotti. Cornmeal is an amazingly good addition to biscotti and it gives them […]
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The 9 Lives of Paul the Octopus

One of my favorite dishes at Jaleo, a delicious Spanish restaurant in DC, is the pulpo a la gallega. It is a Galician dish of boiled octopus served with a generous amount of olive oil and pimenton. However, in thanks to the Soccer match predicting ability of Paul the Octopus, Jose Andres has taken octopus […]
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Pizza Stones – What You Need to Know

We lost a good friend a couple days ago… our pizza stone. It had survived 2 moves and plenty of good bread baking and pizza making. I think what may have finally done it in was a leaking calzone. I tried making calzone and I made the second one up too soon so the dough […]
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What should we plant?

Good news loyal readers… we just got a plot in our local community garden! Back we had a balcony we used to grow basil and cherry, but now the sky (or our 4′ plot) is the limit. I want to branch out from this. My plan is to go for some herbs and other things […]
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Cast Iron Pizza

People go to great lengths to try and replicate authentic pizza at home. One of the main things separating the pizza you make from the pizzerias is heat. I read about one guy who used the cleaning cycle of his oven to get it really hot and then jerry rigged the latch so he could […]
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Epic Bread Baking: The Miche

I know the phrase “Epic” is totally played out and is tossed around way too easily, but seriously how else do you describe a 4 pound loaf of bread that is over a foot and a half across. If a loaf that large is not considered Epic, what would be? The name for this large […]
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