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Chew on This: Vampire blood a hot dish in Chad - 1 Jun 2009

Squeamish about offal? Morcilla and boudin gross you out? Then avoid a dish that's come back from the dead in Chad - fried blood. read more...

Le Market/El Mercado - one of my favorite markets - 19 Nov 2008

I may just be about to betray my favorite market - H Mart in Merrifield. Just up from it where Gallows Road meets Route 50 is Le Market/El Mercado, a clean and shiny recent arrival stocked with treasures from South East Asia and Latin America. read more...

Morcilla - you'd really eat that? - 11 Feb 2009

Blood pudding - France's boudin, Britain's black pudding and the morcilla of Latin America - is becoming a favorite among area chefs. Let's hope it can outlive this unexpected status as a fashionable ingredient. read more...

Phuoc Loc Tho - 27 May 2009

This a tiny market. But there are plenty of South East Asian women shopping at this Vietnamese store behind Sterling Plaza. They raid the various chill cabinets for the stock of unusual fresh herbs, like several kinds of mint, several kinds of basil, including the peppery Holy Thai variety, and Vietnamese cilantro. read more...

Two women to watch
There are culinary people whose careers are worth keeping an eye on. On my list of foodies to follow is Janet Cam, one of the restaurant world's really good general managers - warm but professional, with a great wine palate to boot. And she's about to be back on the floor of a new Washington restaurant in whose kitchen you'll find Roberto Donna's once right-hand/left-hand executive chef, Amy Brandwein.
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