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Local Domestic Goddess Mommies

Three local moms use blogs to share their culinary gems.

Like many others, I played the lottery last week in the hopes I would win $640 million. Yes, I would quit my job and buy a big house etc., etc. But there’s something I would do before all of that: I would pack up my family, rent villas in Tuscany and Provence and learn how to cook! I would learn how to make fresh pasta and pizza in Italy followed by blissful months in France where I would perfect the croquembouche and pain au chocolat. Alas, I did not win millions and my culinary skills are OK, but nothing spectacular. I’m not much of a blogger. I’ve attempted it, but failed miserably. Strangely, however, I'm slightly addicted to other people’s blogs and nine times out of ten, they’re about food! Three of my favorite food blogs happen to …

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Cupcake-Mania Sweeping the Streets of Georgetown

People come from all over the country to get a taste of some of Georgetown's famous cupcakes.

Sprinkles, “the original cupcake bakery,” recently joined the ranks of the 24 designated "cupcakeries" that already exist in the D.C. area alongside many other specialty shops that offer cupcakes. "We come up here from Fredericksburg to get cupcakes. We have them semi-often, probably more often than we should. They're so good," raves Jennifer Coss, an avid Georgetown Cupcake fan. Whether you pick them up on the way to work, during lunch or on the way home, cupcakes are must-have portable treats. The question for many people is how can cupcakes continue to dominate the market? The idea of paying $4 for one cupcake is a bit foreign to many in these trying economic times, yet cupcake shops keep popping up. Georgetown has a number of these …

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Jerry A. McCoy

2:49 pm on Saturday, March 26, 2011

Oh...when this cupcake bubble bursts there will be icing splattered from one end of town to the other!   more ›

Georgetown Coffee House Becomes Art Gallery For A Night

Georgetown's own Baked and Wired offers up caffeine and artsy cool.

This was the pinnacle of cool: a by the book definition of cool, a self-conscious kind of cool, a Beatnik poet kind of cool. Pixies’ lyrics were sprawled on the storefront glass of this artsy java house, young, old, and hip inside, swirling red wine ‘round their glasses and looking fashionable, and others dipping their horn-rimmed glasses toward steaming mugs of freshly brewed coffee. The paintings of a local artist, unveiled for the first time, hung on the whitewashed, exposed brick walls. Was this San Francisco? Was this the Arts District, at least? Alas, it was Georgetown’s favorite holdover for sweet teeth and caffeine-feinds alike, Baked and Wired. The artist, Edward “Bear” Miller, was hosting a reception for his newly hung paintings…

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Georgetown Gatherings and Goings-On Jan. 14-16

It's a long weekend, make the most of it.

Friday evening play it cool at Baked and Wired with a poetry reading beginning at 8 p.m. Grab a cupcake, a latte and enjoy D.C. Poetry's performance of works by CAConrad, Debrah Morkun and Adam Robinson.  Getting hitched? Paper Source is hosting a wedding invites workshop Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. for $40/person. Learn all about enclosures, layering, and stamping and all that jazz. Need to get kids out of the house and have to pick up groceries? Whole Foods has a "two-for" Sunday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. At the Go Greens! workshop at the Healthy Eating Station, you can sample recipes prepared by one of the store's Healthy Eating Specialists. They'll show you how to make getting your greens easier with soups, …

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