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If you're passionate about food, familiar or foreign, here are the food suppliers and foodie facts to help you make the most of cooking in the capital. Take a food adventure across the globe without leaving the area!

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Washington food scene blogs

• DC Food Blog
• DC Foodies
• DC Fud
• Don Rockwell
• Eat.Drink.DC.
• Metrocurean
• Sauce On The Side
• The List Are You On It
• Johnna Knows Good Food
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Recipe & autobiography blogs

• Apples and Bananas
• Cook Eat FRET
• Dorie Greenspan
• Orangette
• 101 Cookbooks Healthy Recipes
• Figs, Bay & Wine
• David Lebowitz

Ingredient sources

• Kalustyans
• Grateful Palate
• Marina Market

Culinary interests sites

• Chef2Chef

Excellent political blogs

• The Washington Note
• NotionsCapital

Washington hospitality sites

• Washington Dulles International Airport Hotels

     
 

My favorite markets: Mom's Organic Market

Mrs Nash must be a mom who is very proud of her son. At 22, in 1987, Scott Nash launched a business selling organic produce with $100. That's about what you can dish out on a single shopping trip to Whole Foods. more...

Oriental fruits identified

Oriental markets are full of unfamiliar fruits. It's a shame to pass on them because you don't know what they are. more...

Latino menus - what's is that stuff?

Que? Some of the terms on Latin American menus may be confusing enough to discouraging ordering. And you'd miss a treat. more...

Bourbon unburbled

What is Bourbon? A dark American whiskey originating in Bourbon County, Kentucky. And a Mint Julep? The perfect summer Bourbon cocktail. more...

I Slept in Queen Elizabeth's Bed; or How To Cook on A Cruise Ship

How do five chefs cook for 50 on a ship in a Force 8 gale and a kitchen the size of a shoe closet?

Read all about it - and whether I slept in the Queen of England's bed - in my latest piece for Dine and Cook. more...

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Chew On This: Will they tell us about nanotechnology?

Remember the broohaha over Genetically Modified food and consumer reaction to it? Perhaps you don't. In the US few seemed to bat their eyelids. But in Europe GM food is still fighting public rejection caused in large part by a belief that in its introduction to the market people weren't being properly explained the nature and implication of the genetic modification of plants.

Well, now we have the food industry wondering how to introduce us to nanotechlogy in food. At a conference last week, some players thought it might be better to introduce this science of the teeny weeny without mentioning it to anyone. more...

Gazpacho

Terri Cutrino, executive chef of Cafe Atlantico's' recipe for that refreshing and pretty soup perfect for summer soup which you can prepare well ahead of sitting down to eat it. more...

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