First of all, I want to explain my impossibly long headlines. As a copywriter, I spend every day focusing on how to phrase things cleverly in proper English without repeating words or using unnecessary articles. So, my blog is a place where I can relax about that stuff and just write for the sake of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Lunch’
March 10, 2010
There’s More To Lunch Than Sandwiches: Five Weekday Salads That Will Rock Your Cubicle
December 13, 2009
Lunch at the New York Times Cafe
OK, I’ve reported my lunchcapades from the National Geographic building, the Conde Nast building, and to add to it…here’s some pictures from my lunch at the New York Times building a couple of weeks ago. The great thing is that the food was subsidized so we got all this food for like…$12. Not too bad [...]
August 24, 2009
Very, Very Quickly – A Recipe for Meditteranean Orzo Salad
I went to a Ramadan dinner last Saturday and brought this orzo salad with me. I invited my friend Claire to come with me to celebrate, but she’s a veg. She suggested that I make an orzo salad so she’d have something to eat, ha ha. We bounced some ideas off each other, and this [...]
July 19, 2009
Finally Ate at Mitsitam, the Cafeteria in the National Museum of the American Indian: So Pricey!
I didn’t have much to eat at the National Museum of the American Indian’s much-hyped cafeteria, Mitsitam (which, according to my friend Andrew is supposed to mean “to eat” or something in some A.I. language [A.I.=American Indian]). Mitsitam serves up traditional American Indian fare from North and South America, so they’ve got everything from frogs [...]
April 21, 2009
I Was Just Eating Merguez, And Then I Magically Saw A Recipe For It In The New York Times!
Ah, I can’t believe it — I literally JUST ate a merguez sausage dish at one of my favorite DC hangouts, Soussi, and THEN, I saw a recipe for making merguez the next day in the food section of the New York Times. Merguez, by the way, is a kind of Moroccan beef sausage.
April 21, 2009
Czech, Please: Five Days Of Boiled Dumplings In Prague
The restaurants in Prague sure know how to lure the tourists in — offer “traditional” Czech food, and they’ll surely come. The only problem is that Czech food isn’t spectacular to begin with; the food is pretty much medieval (meaning, the food lacks any kind of sophistication and hasn’t evolved in the past 300 years). [...]
