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Octopus for Dinner
I always have to hand it to my sister – she is fearless in the kitchen. Pat picked up some octopus in DC and we...
BLT Steak
That’s not Bacon Lettuce and Tomato – it’s Bistro Laurent Tourondel, a restaurant from a charming and celebrated chef...
Kinkeads – A Delicious DC Institution
If you’ve been to Washington DC in the past fifteen or so years, chances are you have eaten at – or at least heard of...
Chesapeake Good Eats
In the middle of a cold, wet, damp winter in Atlanta I start craving two things from the Eastern Shore of Maryland:...
Putting Up
I have found my new favorite cookbook - and it's all about "putting up". Putting up is what we call canning or...
Tenderloin For Iron Chef!
Woo Hoo! Fun Iron Chef class last night at the Cooks Warehouse. 4 Corporate Teams battling it out over the Secret...
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