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January 17, 2012
Hot Topics | Fox 5 TV DC Food Trucks Facing Battle Over Parking By STACEY COHAN/myfoxdc Published : Friday, 13 Jan 2012, 7:20 PM ESTWASHINGTON - There is a crackdown on one of the fastest growing businesses in the District. Food trucks are popping up on dozens of city streets, selling everything from pulled pork to pecan pies. But there's a food fight brewing.While popular, withbusy, but hungry...
January 17, 2012
Members in the News | The New York Times  The Capital’s KitchenPublished: January 15, 2012  For 23 years, D.C. Central Kitchen,the country’s oldest community kitchen providing meals for the poor andhomeless, has taken discarded food and marginalized people and found value in both. It’s a nonprofit that gives new meaning to free enterprise.  What started with one refrigerator...
January 13, 2012
Members in the News | Virginia Named One of the 10 Best Wine Travel Destinations of 2012 by Wine Enthusiast~Commonwealth Joins World's Top Wine Regions in Prestigious Listing~Magazine Cites State's Rich History, Natural Beauty, and Wine Makers in SelectionRICHMOND – Wine Enthusiast Magazine has named Virginia as one of the 10 best wine travel destinations for 2012. The article, listed online and in the February...
January 12, 2012
Hot Topics | The Washington Post D.C. cab drivers protest fare hike and other changesBy Maggie Fazeli Fard, Published: Januaryl 11, 2012 There was standing room only at the D.C. Taxicab Commission meeting Wednesday, when city cab drivers and others aired their grievances about the commission’s recently approved fare hike.More than a dozen cab drivers spoke at the two-hour meeting, which was...
January 11, 2012
Members in the News | Restaurant Hospitality  12 to Watch in 2012 Jan 1, 2012 12:00 PM, Megan Rowe Who are the next rising stars? Who is poised to break away from the pack? Who has accomplished something really cool? We've found a dozen individuals and duos who fit the bill.Tiffany MacIsaacExecutive pastry chef, Neighborhood Restaurant Group, Washington, DC Why we're watching: She's built a loyal fan base...
January 10, 2012
Tidbits |  The New York Times January 9, 2012 Pasta Graduates From Alphabet Soup to Advanced Geometry By KENNETH CHANG Most people eating pasta might enjoy the taste or appreciate the texture of noodles cooked al dente.  Sander Huisman did, too — and then he wondered about what mathematical equation would describe the undulating shapes he was eating.  ...
January 10, 2012
Tidbits | The New York Times  January 9, 2012 The Knife in the Carry-On By MICHAEL T. LUONGO For most business travelers, the post-Sept. 11 restrictions on carrying sharp objects onto planes are minor inconveniences. But for those who work in an industry focused on sharp or dangerous objects, business trips can be prone to problems without proper planning.  Transportation...
January 9, 2012
Tidbits | The New York Times  Thieves Seek Restaurants’ Used Fryer OilJanuary 7, 2012 By STEVEN YACCINOCompanies that collect used cooking grease from restaurants across the country have turned to all forms of sleuthing in recent years. Private investigators. Surveillance cameras. Rigged alarms. And still, containers full of used fryer oil are slipping through their fingers. For years,...
January 6, 2012
Hot Topics | Greater Greater WashingtonThe Washington, DC area is great. But it could be greater.  Experimental real-time transit screens come to Arlington, DCby Eric Fidler   •   January 5, 2012 If you go into the Java Shack coffee shop near Court House in Arlington, or walk past the Red Palacebar on H Street in DC, you will see a new experimental project from theMobility Lab: Digital...
January 6, 2012
Members in the News |  The Washington Post Capital Business  Two restaurants chosen for District office building By Jonathan O'Connell, The District government has selected two restaurant operators to open locations in a city office building in the Benning neighborhood of Northeast Washington, in what could serve as a test-run for bringing new food options to the area around St. Elizabeths...
January 4, 2012
Legislation | The Washington Post Arlington County Board dives into work for 2012By Patricia Sullivan, Published: January 2While most of the Washington area did whatever it does on a day when nearly everything is closed, the Arlington County Board claimed bragging rights Monday as the first local government to get to work in 2012.It’s a tradition fulfilled by appointments, calendar-setting and speeches....
January 3, 2012
Members in the News | Washington Flyer 5 Restaurants to Make You Forget ResolutionsThese new havens of food goodness beg us to leap from the wagon...quite happily.By David Hagedorn  I know this is the time of year for resolutions that usually involve going to the gym, cleansing, cutting back the carbs, and other forms of torture and deprivation. But I’m just not down with that. My waistline might...
January 2, 2012
|  RAMW holiday party November 28, 2011 at Todd Gray's Watershed Restaurant.  Holiday Party 2011 Photos
January 1, 2012
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December 28, 2011
| Photos from the RAMW October Social at Columbia Firehouse in Alexandria, VA. Photo credit Fredde Lieberman.October 2011 Social Photos

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