Category Food
A Moveable Feast (or Thanksgiving in Paris)
Ernest Hemingway called Paris a moveable feast — and on this American day of feasting, that’s exactly what it was for me (only Paris wasn’t actually moving, it was I who moved from feast to feast…). We started out with breakfast chez Paul. We had missed breakfast the past few days, in part due to our schedule, […]
Paris, Day 2 – Dinner at Le Procope
Le Procope, which was founded in 1686, claims to be the oldest cafe in Paris. The interior is pretty and the food was pretty good (not outstanding, but certainly decent). Plus, it was conveniently close to the movie theater… Le Procope Gratinee a l’oignon Magret de canard a l’orange Pommes de terre gaufrees […]
A Hermit’s Soup
Fall is in full swing here. The leaves are changing beautifully, the air is chilly, and I got in the mood for a good hearty soup. With the amount of hours I’ve been putting in at work lately, I’ve been eating out a lot (not only do I not have time to cook, I also […]
Mon père à Washington
This weekend I had the great pleasure of welcoming mon père to Washington, DC. He had spent the past week up in Aberdeen, Maryland, attending a series of lectures and courses about biological and chemical agents that can be weaponized (he’s a civilian public health official at an Air Force base out West, with particular […]
Work Lunch
Guess what just opened a few blocks from work? That’s right! Sure, it’s a chain — just one of many in Europe, though the first in the U.S. — but it’s French. Which means that my diet during the workday now consists primarily of pains au chocolat. Pain au chocolat Of course, man cannot live […]
Hurricane Report: 9h00
The bulk of the storm passed me in the night (I’m the pink dot to the lower left). The eye is now is now sitting on top of New York (the pink dot to the upper right). Right now in DC we’re only getting a light rain. It feels very calm and ordinary after yesterday’s stormy energy. The […]
Hurricane Report: 23h55
The storm is still going strong. As you can see from the map below, we’re back in the yellow/orange zone. Torrential rain and strong wind. I’m getting really sleepy, and I need to go to bed. But how can I go to bed when there’s a hurricane? It’s like going to bed in the middle […]
Hurricane Report: 21h40
What does 12-16 inches of rain look like? It’s been raining hard for the past 10 hours where I live, and according to the weather guys we’ve only gotten somewhere between 2-4 inches. So if southern Virginia has gotten 12-16 inches, then I’m impressed and, frankly, have a hard time imagining what that must have […]
Hurricane Report: 20h40
I found a way to plot my position in the map. I’m the pink dot. It makes me sad to see that all the best stuff is passing by to the east! Anyone want to go to Baltimore with me?
Hurricane Report: 17h00
We’re in the middle of our hurricane weekend. Irene has been working her way up the coast all morning. The rain started here a little before noon; the wind didn’t really start until the early afternoon. When I went running at 1:30pm, it was through a medium downpour with gusting winds. Things have gradually gotten worse […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 