food

Round Challah (Photo: Kristy McCarron/DC on Heels)

Rosh Hashanah Treats

A Spin on Jewish Honey Cake The start of Autumn is signified with a few key events: freshly sharpened pencils, new copybooks, turn of the weather (not quite in D.C.), the first pumpkin spice latte, crisper apples and the many fall Jewish holidays. This year, not being of Jewish
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Let Them Eat Pie

Confessions of an Amatuer Pie Baking Contestant Last week, I, for the first time, entered a pie contest. I found the entry online the weekend before and jumped on the chance to spend a Sunday at the Bethesda farmers’ market and bake pies all weekend. It was a wholesome
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Smucker Farms of Lancaster

Full Time Farmer’s Market in the District How nice it is to enter a grocery store and not be bombarded with brightly packaged goods, produce that is wildly out of season and bright, glistening, enormous aisles. On the contrary, what a relief it is to find a market place
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