This week we have chef swaps, a supper club, edible panties, new openings, trend pieces, beauty tips, dirty lettuce and a meat suitcase.
- I'm starting to feel like that Nursing Home Cat. Remember the great profile on Chef Seningen of Hook that we did? Yeah well, he left there and has been replaced by a former Chef du Cuisine from Blue Duck. (Via @Metrocurean)
- Here's something very cool, an underground supper club of U Street called HUSH. Serving Indian vegetarian meals, HUSH offers an evening of good food and storytelling. It's BYOB and runs $50 for the night, Mondays only. Also on Twitter @HUSHSupperClub.
- I don't mind the $0.05 bag tax. But the fact that people are now discussing whether edible panties and lickable lotions are food, and thus should have a $0.05 bag tax, just seem like a waste of everyone's time. Also, bring your own bag to the sex shop. (Via Technorati)
- Matchbox is opening in Rockville with a space that will seat close to 400, and a pizza bar where you can talk to your pie man.
- Meat Week is real. Meat Week is now.
- Sauca, a new global food truck, starts running today. Hope it has snow tires. :) Follow them at @WhereSauce
- The Passenger is getting a neighbor. Bar 7 is coming soon, whatever that means. (Via Prince of Petworth)
- I love trend pieces, and this one from the Chicago Tribune on 10 not-so-obvious food trends for 2010. My favorites: Conout water, eggs as the new bacon, sardines - and yes... macarons.
- Women eat salad at dinner because it makes them seem prettier.
- Speaking of salad. Consumer Reports has found that nearly 40% of bagged lettuces contain unacceptable amounts of fecal traces. Do yourself a favor and get a salad spinner, you can get one for like $5 at Target.
- Meat briefcase.
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God loves a cheerful giver.
Do people really wear edible panties to bed? Are people really so vapid in their sexual thinking that they consider it taboo or neat? I guess they must since the things are still for sale.
I want to taste a woman (well some of them, some of you needed a mommy who was more concerned with raising you right than her career and taught you how to keep yourself clean), not strawberries or chocolate or Everlasting Gobstoppers.
Some of them are made of fruit roll up material, which I think it icky. Others are made of candy necklace beads, which seem okay to me. In a Burning Man, raver, Willy Wonka kinda way.
I can't believe you just blamed working mothers for girls who don't smell up to your standards. Idiot.
In food related comments: eh, I got nothing.
Alex... totally going to try Sauca today (hooray for Thomas Circle!). I'll give you a quick review/some photos if I can!
kim - I most certainly did not.
Shauna - would love to hear about it. Especially if the prices are worth it. The flatbreads seem on the high-end, but the waffles sound fantastic!
I can't wait to try HUSH. For reals. I have the perfect viognier.
also - weren't eggs supposed to be the new bacon in 2009?
Talking about food is tough:
"HUSH" seems to be a misnomer for a 'secret' supper club that has a blog, twitter feed, and sends out press releases.