DC Food Blogger Happy Hour Wednesday, June 2nd

DC Food Blogger Happy Hour
Wednesday June 2, 2010 – 6 to 8 pm
ZENTAN
Donvan House Hotel
1155 14th street NW
Washington, D.C 20005

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More at: Capital Spice, Dining in DC, Girl Meets Food, Gradually Greener, Johnna Knows Good Food, Modern Domestic, Thrifty DC Cook, and elsewhere in the DC foodie Blogosphere.

 

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Tonight: Perfect DC Entertainment

 

Tonight, after your 9 to 5, go straight to Wonderland Ballroom for a session of PowerPoint Karaoke. Starting at 6:30 PM, cubicle slaves will ad-lib presentations illustrated by a display of random PowerPoint slides. Sounds like a typical meeting at work, except for the booze. Will there be donuts? Go and find out.

PowerPoint Karaoke
Thursday, May 13, 2010
6:30 PM — 8:30 PM

Wonderland Ballroom
1101 Kenyon St, NW
Washington, DC 20010
(202) 232-5263

Presented by I Hate My 9 to 5

Psst: You can sign up early.

 

Seis de Mayo

Last night, the 5th of May, millions of people commemorated the Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla (1862) with volleys of shots — of tequila — bravura barrages of beer, and murderous margaritas. Unsurprisingly, this morning finds heads held hostage and stomachs seared from nacho napalm. Today’s Spanish vocabulary lesson: crudo means ” hangover.”

DC Food Blogger Happy Hour May 5, 2010

DC Food Blogger Happy Hour
Wednesday May 5, 2010 – 6 to 8 pm
Restaurant 3
2950 Clarendon Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 524-4440

Clarendon Metro Station (Orange Line).

RSVP on Facebook.

More at Dining in DC, Johnna Knows Good Food, Gradually Greener, and elsewhere in the DC foodie Blogosphere.

 

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Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.

Hot Super Bowl News

Many people suggest healthy, nutritious snacks for this Sunday. Balderdash.

Healthy snacks for Super Bowl Sunday, the collective national rite where real Americans drive drunk to gather on home couches and watch 300-pound men with enlarged hearts give each other concussions and torn ligaments live on digital television? Hardly. Save those healthy snacks for watching touch football or cricket.

Sunday’s menu is a single word: Pizza. 

Blogs With Bite

      

Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.      

Here’s a fresh holiday serving of Blogs with Bite:      

Society for the Protection & Preservation of the Fruitcake – Founded ca. 1999 by Mary Beth Frezon. Recipes, history, philosophy, links. That green stuff in the cake? Candied citron peel.  Robert Sietsema’s “Short History of Fruitcake” is still tasty; Linda Stradley’s version is short and sweet. Apollo 11 brought fruitcake into space in 1969; it was an odd pineapple variety but, typically, some astronauts refused to eat it. Fans of the dense pastry should blast off to Mondo Fruitcake. What makes fruitcake so durable?  Sugar and alcohol (see Cynthia Bertelsen’s post on fermentation). The Caribbean, source of sugar and rum, has its own especially dense Black Fruitcake. Is baking too much trouble? Try an inflatable fruitcake.      

Cookie Cutter Museum – Knightstown, Indiana. There are also cookie cutter museums in Poland, NY and Joplin, MO, and a national Cookie Cutter Collector’s Club. Cookie boards (wooden molds, like the ones used for Spekulatius and Springerle) preceded tin cookie cutters. Alice Ross has a nice history of shaped Christmas gingerbread.      

Snow Cream – Got snow? Make snow cream.    

Latkes vs. Sufganiyot – Hanukkah smackdown! A deep doctrinal rift divides the world Jewish community this time of year. Which fried treats should be served during the Festival of Lights, savory potato latkes (pancakes) or sweet sufganiyot (jelly donuts)? Sufganiyot (singular, sufganiyah) are favored in Israel (emphatically so), latkes in Europe and the USA. Some celebrants try to avoid this conflict by serving fritters.     

Christmas Pickle – Heard about the traditional German Christmas ornament shaped like a pickled cucumber, and the “Hide the Pickle” game? It’s a hoax or urban legend.  Really. Honest. 

Air Guitar Finals

The exciting U.S. Air Guitar Championship season comes to an end Friday here in the Nation’s Capital (9:30 Club at 8 PM). As you may recall from the local preliminaries back in May, 2009 has seen a hotly-contested 25-city U.S. race.

The winner of Friday’s thrilling thrashfest goes on to the  Inter-Galactic Air Guitar World Championship in downtown Oulu, Finland later this month.

 

Hat Tip: U Street Girl

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Vodka Victims

More than half of Russians who die between the ages of 15 and 54 are killed by alcohol, a study has found. Some deaths are from the poisons in badly-distilled home brew, but most are from chronic conditions caused or  exacerbated by booze. 30.000 Russians a year die from alcohol poisoning due to plain over-consumption.

Compared to the rest of Europe, The mortality rate in the 15-to-54 age group is five times higher for Russian men, three times higher for Russian women.

Blogs With Bite

Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.

The latest serving of Blogs with Bite:

Appetite for China – “1.3 Billion People Must Be Eating Something Right.” Comprehensive, well-written blog and web site by Diana Kuan. Recipes, articles, reviews of restaurants in and near China.  

Food Dude – Bachelor dietary insights by Will Greenberg, on video. Must-see TV, especially for young singles and public health officials.

Kitchen Tantra – Sensual food photos and savory recipes by Malar Gandhi of Oxford, MS. Well-written instructions for dishes from many Indian cuisines.

Shellfish In The News – News aggregator of the National Shellfisheries Association.  Food, food safety, and environmental stories as well as trade and commercial issues.

Man and Mollusk – Shellfish in a nutshell; a comprehensive website by Avril Bourquin. Spell it “mollusc” or “mollusk”  — both are correct.  An educational resource for adults, kids, and teachers; extensive link directory; handy Edible Molluscs Database. There are a few recipes; supplement them with a dozen more from the 2009 Romancing The Clam event and the DMOZ Directory of 61 Fish and Seafood Recipe collections.

All About Chocolate — Interactive web exhibition by Chicago’s Field Museum.

Essential Kitchen Gear from Archie McPhee– World’s Largest Champagne Glass, Spring-Loaded Spoon, Telescoping Fork, and more. Don’t neglect the  Bacon, Meat & Sushi  and Candy & Gum categories. Summer is almost here, so stock up on Tiki Bar staples (fishermen will want Chum Bucket Mints). No kitchen should be without Inflatable Toast, Yodeling Pickles, or Rubber Chickens.

Seis de Mayo

Last night, the 5th of May, millions of people commemorated the Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla (1862) with volleys of shots — of tequila — bravura barrages of beer, and murderous margaritas. Unsurprisingly, this morning finds heads held hostage and stomachs seared from nacho napalm. Today’s Spanish vocabulary lesson: crudo means ” hangover.”

If you celebrated Cinco de Mayo with cerveza, celebrate Seis de Mayo this morning with el desayuno de los campeones, the Breakfast of Champions. The traditional Mexican hangover cure is menudo – tripe soup or stew.