Last night we took ourselves out to a new pho joint here in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of the District of Columbia, then came home and watched a documentaryon public television about D.C. in the ’60s, culminating, of course, with the riots that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. At first blush, the connection between [...]
Tags: capitalism·development·District of Columbia·Vietnamese
New Year’s seems to be a time of lists–what’s in, what’s out. If you put a gun to my head and forced me to make a list of the world’s greatest foods, this would have to be near the top–the simple Vietnamese noodle soup called pho (pronounced fuh?, like a question). You know you are [...]
Tags: pho·soup·Vietnamese
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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