If you are a federal employee household, like we are, the potential government shutdown is probably also on your mind. Thanks to a number of children (and not the good kind, but those cavechildren you see in public, climbing furniture, eating paste, and pulling hair…
A few years ago, while menu-tasting for our wedding in the DC metro area, I tasted what continues to be my favorite appetizer, hands down: crispy palak (spinach) chaat. I won’t mention the name of the Indian restaurant in the Virginia suburbs, despite the wondrousness…
Today I’m sharing a recipe that my sister mastered: the coveted ramen burger, the hipster dish still noticeably absent on the district’s food scene, despite having already traveled from its hometown Brooklyn all the way out west to California, and even back again. My sister…
A few notable things happened this past week. I got sick, I got better, and now I’m sick again.
India has been on my mind lately. We’re right in the middle of one of the biggest festivals of the year: the ten-day Ganapati festival. Millions of Indians across the world will be visiting one another in homes to pay homage to elaborate arrangements surrounding…
A few months ago I stumbled upon one of the best dining establishments in the district: Hot N Juicy. That’s right– that place nestled in the strip of not-so-great restaurants along Connecticut Avenue in Woodley Park, that place where people who want to gorge on…
I’ve always been somewhat obsessed with carousels. The shellacked animals, the strung lightbulbs, the mesmerizing carnival music. And now that I have a little person in my life who still can’t quite climb all over a jungle gym but has, quite frankly, mastered the art…
Yeah, me too. And others too! Four people told me this past week that they’re expecting first or second children and the first of my friends to have their second child delivered last week. Welcome to the world, IMH! While you’re counting back nine months…
