The Washington area isn’t known for it’s Cuban restaurants (that would be Miami). But at one time, back in my student days about a century ago, there was a great little Cuban place in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood here in the District of Columbia called The Omega. The wait staff consisted of older Cuban gentlemen with [...]
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They call beans “the poor man’s meat” because they are full of protein. But beans are not a complete protein. They’re missing some essential amino acids that are readily supplied by animal sources such as meat or eggs or by simple grains. That’s why you so often see beans paired with grains in cultures around [...]
They say you can’t get an authentic Cubano sandwich outside Miami and I tend to believe it. Ingredients can be extremely local. I can’t image a true lobster roll, for instance, without a top-cut bun, and top-cut buns aren’t available outside certain areas of New England. Still, we continuously try to duplicate the flavors, the [...]
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We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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