Birthday Party

Make soup in honor of Julia Child

Julia Child would have wanted excellent food to celebrate her 100th birthday today. So her longtime friend Ris Lacoste is hosting a party. Lacoste, who cooked dinner for Child on...

Farm Visit

Friends & Farms rounds up the best local food

Friends & Farms is like the Pied Piper of area farms. The two-week-old CSA-style service rounds up the very best foods from area farmers, bakers, ranchers and fishermen, then...

Link Love

Meat up at Stachowski Market and Deli

The neighborhood butcher shop has become as hard to find as good liverwurst. Enter meat maestro Jamie Stachowski, a fixture at local farmers’ markets. The chef has a new...

Tap This

Add whiskey to your breakfast routine

Skip the balsamic syrup in favor of whiskey-tinged maple syrup when dressing strawberries this season. Local woodworker Art Drauglis has used his skills with wood to become a...

Burger Beat

Spend Memorial Day at Purcellville's Market Burger

The pickle is the most maligned of toppings. It is scraped off burgers more often than it is eaten with them. But wasting the pickles at the new Market Burger Fries & Shakes...

Sugar Shack

Stop into Sugar Magnolia for special hummus

Sugar Magnolia, the tiny space in front of Cleveland Park’s Ripple, bills itself as a bakery. The counter display holds chewy chocolate chip cookies ($1.25), butterscotch...