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What is and isn’t true about genetically modified foods
Welcome to Unearthed, a new monthly column that will get at facts about our food supply.
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Home, near the farm
Willowsford draws residents with proximity to locally grown food — and culinary lessons to boot.
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Leftovers with a char
Smoke Signals: Slap more ingredients on the grate than you need, and you’ll create opportunities.
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Former Town House chef John Shields nears Georgetown space
The new restaurant will continue what Shields and his wife began at the late Virginia destination.
Chat Leftovers: The hole truth about baked apples
We try to get to the core of a reader’s culinary dilemma.
Dining guide also-rans: Good, but not always great
Tom Sietsema spotlights three restaurants that didn’t make the cut for the annual fall compilation.
Willowsford’s draw: Farm-and-food lifestyle
Willowsford, a new residential community in Loudoun County, was designed with a focus on local food.
Autumn’s bounty, warmed by cinnamon
The Weeknight Vegetarian falls back on a quick pasta dish.
Amaro will grow on you
Spirits: If you start out at the deep and bitter end, you may be in for a slap in the palate. So make your own.
Here’s to the wineries that survived Prohibition
Generations-old U.S. winemakers are anomalies in an age when brands are traded like poker chips.
5 wines for fall
This week’s recommendations include a merlot from one of America’s oldest wineries.
Calendar: Two big beer festivals on tap this week
Options include Snallygaster and the Northern Virginia Fall BrewFest.
One company’s creepy plan to watch you shop
And it involves using Microsoft’s Kinect sensor to make you buy more Oreos.
A Chesapeake Bay tour with watermen
Their numbers are dwindling, but a new tourism program hopes to keep their traditions and memory alive.
Chat Leftovers: Frozen pizza highs and lows
There’s a reason behind those counterintuitive baking instructions on the box.
A taste of nostalgia
The Weeknight Vegetarian flashes back to ‘Sundays at Moosewood’ with a bowl of African peanut soup.
It’s Drink Local Wine time
Virginia and Maryland offer more reasons to get involved in this, the effort’s sixth year.
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Washington Post cooking class list, 2013-2014
There are more than 180 cooking classes in the Washington area to tempt you into the kitchen.
The whole scoop on ice cream
This might be the help you’ve been waiting for: base recipes, current standards for various frozen desserts and tips for serving and storing.
A Washington Post cookbook, at last
Out in stores and online, it features recipes that span more than 50 years of Food section coverage.
Interactive map of CSAs in the Washington area
Nearly 70 farms that offer community-supported agriculture, or CSA, programs, are highlighted.
The big chill: A freezer guide
Use this guide to learn the best ways to take your food from freezer to table.
Farmers market listings
The Washington Post Food section’s 2013 listing and map of farmers markets in the area.
Nourish recipes
Search more than 100 healthful entrees, all clocking in at less than 500 calories, from Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.
Food Features
Tom Sietsema
At Rose’s Luxury, already a necessity
Its top chef’s philosophy: “I’m in the good times business.” That sounds about right.
Barcelona arrives on 14th Street NW
The Connecticut chainlette’s D.C. outlet is hot, hot, hot — though the bread left us cold.
Italian oeuvre at M Cafe Bar
First Bite: A reincarnation of the Chevy Chase restaurant pops up in the buzzy 14th Street corridor.
Good deals, and a good deal of noise, at Bar Charley
First Bite: Jackie Greenbaum and Gordon Banks open a tasty, noisy spot in Dupont Circle.
Tanaka’s concise menu hits the right notes at Thally
First Bite: Ron Tanaka’s menu is sophisticated yet approachable, with a decor to match.
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