The new iHop opened in Columbia Heights and it's success can be seen in the hungry-for-pancakes customers waiting on the sidewalk for a chance to eat. Designer jeans, flash and bling, and a restaurant filled to capacity with shoppers and local fashionistas.
It better be open 24 hours. I love the DC is slowly becoming a 24 hour town. Isn't it great that there is now someplace open at 3 a.m. besides the Steak -n- Eggs Kitchen on Wisconsin? You can buy groceries in Georgetown all night long or hang out at the Attached Starbucks until dawn.
With all the hip and pricey restaurants being opened in Columbia Heights, any place offering decent food at a decent price is going to make a killing. One by one, the reasonably-priced places to eat have gone from the DC restaurant scene. Let this hip hop iHop begin a reversal of that trend.
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
11.20.2010
2.16.2009
Alternative Energy or Clean Energy?
The two are not necessarily related. The question is: what is more or a priority - relying on ourselves for energy, or protecting the environment?
In the future, you will see these two interests diverge.
Personally, I'm in favor of energy independence first. The sooner we can tell those oil nation to take a hike, the happier I'll be. Imagine a world where you no longer have to think about the Middle East. Hooray!
In pursuit of my patriotic duty, I am now composting, making my own yogurt which is WAY better than the store stuff, starting the seeds for my garden, and growing sprouts. Damn, I feel superior.
Environment, Food, Food Deserts, Foodshed, Green Living, Growing Power, Sustainability, Will Allen, Green News, vegetable
In the future, you will see these two interests diverge.
Personally, I'm in favor of energy independence first. The sooner we can tell those oil nation to take a hike, the happier I'll be. Imagine a world where you no longer have to think about the Middle East. Hooray!
In pursuit of my patriotic duty, I am now composting, making my own yogurt which is WAY better than the store stuff, starting the seeds for my garden, and growing sprouts. Damn, I feel superior.
Environment, Food, Food Deserts, Foodshed, Green Living, Growing Power, Sustainability, Will Allen, Green News, vegetable
12.27.2008
Fat, Carbohydrates and Booze
Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, a paleo-Conservative magazine (essentially Klansmen with Bachelors degrees), has an article this week about the obese. After the usual statistics about obesity in America, the article goes on to attack health insurance as we know it.
Their big complaint is that health insurance subscribers are not given higher premiums based on lifestyle decisions. You know - fat, carbohydrates and booze.
Now that we are breathing on the possibility of universal health insurance, would it be so awful to charge more to the people who will cost the system more by virtue of their choices? No.
This article attacks the political correctness of not penalizing people for being fat, lazy alcoholics. I guess the readership of Chronicles is all fit and non-smoking in their moral superiority.
But - they have a point. The health-conscious among us should not pay higher premiums than others who eat like there's no tomorrow. It is actually basic common sense. The worst drivers pay higher insurance premiums than good drivers. Bad eaters should pay higher health insurance premiums than good eaters. It just makes sense.
Their big complaint is that health insurance subscribers are not given higher premiums based on lifestyle decisions. You know - fat, carbohydrates and booze.
Now that we are breathing on the possibility of universal health insurance, would it be so awful to charge more to the people who will cost the system more by virtue of their choices? No.
This article attacks the political correctness of not penalizing people for being fat, lazy alcoholics. I guess the readership of Chronicles is all fit and non-smoking in their moral superiority.
But - they have a point. The health-conscious among us should not pay higher premiums than others who eat like there's no tomorrow. It is actually basic common sense. The worst drivers pay higher insurance premiums than good drivers. Bad eaters should pay higher health insurance premiums than good eaters. It just makes sense.
9.18.2008
Eating Cheap - The Essentials
Stocking up on the essentials is important right now.
Get:
Oil
Dried beans
Several gallons of safe drinking water
Dry soup
Pasta
Rice
High fiber cereal
Dry milk
Canned foods - fruit and vegetable
Get:
Oil
Dried beans
Several gallons of safe drinking water
Dry soup
Pasta
Rice
High fiber cereal
Dry milk
Canned foods - fruit and vegetable
Eating Cheap - Dandelion Greens
Just a note, don't pick your dandelion greens in the dog park. Seriously, I saw some woman doing just that.
But dandelion greens are fine to eat, as long as the greens are young. Older greens are too tough.
So pick the young dandelion greens, heat oil in a frying pan, and throw in the washed greens.
It is worth noting that a human can survive on weeds and oil. Not weeds alone, the oil is essential.
But dandelion greens are fine to eat, as long as the greens are young. Older greens are too tough.
So pick the young dandelion greens, heat oil in a frying pan, and throw in the washed greens.
It is worth noting that a human can survive on weeds and oil. Not weeds alone, the oil is essential.
5.06.2008
Food Crisis: One Billion Hungry Asians
The prospect is frightening. The political instability that a food crisis on a continent-wide scale could cause is really beyond our comprehension. As a species, we've never faced it before.
Expensive food is one thing when there are cheaper alternatives. When the cheap food is your only nutrient staple and you can't even afford to eat that, the situation becomes dangerous. Widespread violence is going to be the result.
Remember, that's one billion people. If even a fraction decide that they're going to gate-crash another part of the globe, we'll be severely overwhelmed and looking back with fondness when it was only the Mexicans we had to worry about.
Expensive food is one thing when there are cheaper alternatives. When the cheap food is your only nutrient staple and you can't even afford to eat that, the situation becomes dangerous. Widespread violence is going to be the result.
Remember, that's one billion people. If even a fraction decide that they're going to gate-crash another part of the globe, we'll be severely overwhelmed and looking back with fondness when it was only the Mexicans we had to worry about.
3.07.2008
Travel to Mother Russia!
So Russia is spending big bucks, according to the Washington Post, to improve its image abroad. And it might even work.
Forget Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist who was killed for reporting about the use of torture by the Russian government. Or the Russian editor of Fortune magazine who was gunned down in the lobby of his office building and then help was delayed until after he was dead. Forget the Russian expat who was murdered in London.
And that's what will happen. No one will remember or care that good, decent people who spoke out for basic human rights were killed by the Russian state. They won't think about the implications of that for their own lives, either.
Forget Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist who was killed for reporting about the use of torture by the Russian government. Or the Russian editor of Fortune magazine who was gunned down in the lobby of his office building and then help was delayed until after he was dead. Forget the Russian expat who was murdered in London.
And that's what will happen. No one will remember or care that good, decent people who spoke out for basic human rights were killed by the Russian state. They won't think about the implications of that for their own lives, either.
10.04.2007
Terror Attack with Chili Peppers
A restaurant in Britain triggered a terror alert when its very hot chili peppers caused an alarm to be raised. A "noxious cloud" and "eye-watering stench" caused panic among Soho shoppers and the area was sealed off for Hazmat and possible terror attack inspections.
That guy's Thai food is nothing to play around with, it seems. "The restaurant, which has been open for 17 years, is considering putting up posters to warn the public during future chilli cooking sessions."
Click on the title to this post for the Guardian story in full.
That guy's Thai food is nothing to play around with, it seems. "The restaurant, which has been open for 17 years, is considering putting up posters to warn the public during future chilli cooking sessions."
Click on the title to this post for the Guardian story in full.
7.14.2007
Food Quality Through Public Executions
So the Chinese have shot the guy in charge of their food quality. Do you feel better now? Given the Chinese government's penchant for shooting people it hardly gives me any comfort, anyway.
Fundamentally, if someone at the top is allowing lousy and dangerous food to be exported, no one in China cares until they get caught. China doesn't even have one consistent set of trade laws. How are they going to enforce "quality" even assuming they agree with us on what that means.
If you want a great example of the failures of deregulation of business, the import of bad foodstuffs into the American diet would be a good place to start. Profit motive fails as a substitute for good policy. Profit motives are short-term and short-sighted. U.S. business has an equal share in the blame for poisoning our food supply.
Imagine: all the dogs that died from bad food from China could have been children. Would we be embracing the free market then?
Fundamentally, if someone at the top is allowing lousy and dangerous food to be exported, no one in China cares until they get caught. China doesn't even have one consistent set of trade laws. How are they going to enforce "quality" even assuming they agree with us on what that means.
If you want a great example of the failures of deregulation of business, the import of bad foodstuffs into the American diet would be a good place to start. Profit motive fails as a substitute for good policy. Profit motives are short-term and short-sighted. U.S. business has an equal share in the blame for poisoning our food supply.
Imagine: all the dogs that died from bad food from China could have been children. Would we be embracing the free market then?
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