Food
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National Chili Dog Day: Ben's Chili Bowl, how to properly eat a chili dog
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Today is National Chili Dog Day, which means you have a good excuse to eat what will, like cigarettes, end your life someday.
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Kushi sushi's closing, opening explained
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The District shut down Kushi last Friday, but now the Mt. Vernon Square restaurant is open again. So what happened, exactly?
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Wicked Waffle: 'No Butter, No Syrup' opens Monday
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Wicked Waffle, where you won't find syrup or butter, is opening Monday in Farrugut, according to Urban Daddy. "We leave out the extra calories and the predictable ingredients," reads the restaurant's promo. "How wicked is that?" Uh, yeah, pretty wicked. But seriously, can we have some syrup and butter now?
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Hot dogs cause cancer, Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine erects billboard
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BEWARE: Hot dogs are as bad as cigarettes. That is, eating 50 grams of processed meat per day — about one hot dog — increases your risk of colorectal cancer, on average, by 21 percent. So, to remind NASCAR fans that eating hot dogs will kill them, the D.C.-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine bought a billboard ad near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that reads: "Warning: Hot Dogs Can Wreck Your Health."
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'Top Chef Just Desserts': CityZen's executive pastry chef Matthew Petersen to compete in season 2
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Local pastry chef Matthew Petersen will be joining the second season of Bravo's Top Chef Just Desserts, as one of 14 contestants. Which means you can expect TBD to follow his progress like he's President Obama on a Middle Eastern tour.
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Lions more likely to eat humans after full moon, study says
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Before you book your slumber party at the National Zoo, check the phases of the moon. Lions are more likely to devour humans after a full moon, according to a recent study in the journal Public Library of Science ONE.
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Capitol City Brewing Company closes in Postal Square, to open in Union Station
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Capitol City Brewing Company's Postal Square location served up its last Prohibition Porter on Saturday night. After 15 years, it's leaving the building so the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum can have more room for those monetary stickers that few people buy anymore.
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Junk food advertising standards to change by industry request
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Junk-food producers have agreed to a new set of marketing standards in a supposed attempt to promote children's health. We know what you're thinking. No, this isn't a good-faith effort to reduce the number of rainbows, stars, hearts and horseshoes in our national diet; yes, it's a cynical ploy to get the government off their back.
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'Top Chef’ reunion (okay, 'oven-warming party') at Graffiato
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Mike Isabella hosted an "oven-warming" party at Graffiato last night, celebrating the debut of the new Italian restaurant in Penn Quarter. In attendance were Top Chef alums, plus several local chefs uncorrupted by fleeting television celebrity.
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Ben's Chili Bowl, Galaxy Hut expand to new locations
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Cravings for a late-night half-smoke will no longer mean dodging cop cars and wobbly partiers on U Street, and indie music lovers won't have to share air with overgrown frat boys in Arlington. Which is our way of saying that neighborhood staples Ben's Chili Bowl and Galaxy Hut both have expansion plans.
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A guide to shopping at La Union Grocery
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Sample plantain chips and pupusas at this Salvadoran market in Arlington.
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Eataly: Italian food and drink market coming in 2012
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The gigantic Italian food and drink emporium may be arriving in the District as soon as 2012, assuming they can find 10 contiguous city blocks to occupy.
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Booze, fast food to make perfect harmony together
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In future America, we won't have to go two separate places to get fat and drunk.
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Tortilla Coast: Neighborhood protests Tex-Mex eatery in Logan Circle
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Trying to eat late-night tacos? How rude. People are trying to sleep!
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Tune Inn, beloved Capitol Hill bar, to close for summer
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The beloved Capitol Hill dive bar, which suffered a kitchen fire last week, won't open nearly as soon as hoped. The District's journos quietly weep.
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National Gallery of Art's Jazz Garden: No booze allowed
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Planning on boozing at the Jazz Garden this summer? It'll cost you in time and money.
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U Street Music Hall's Tittsworth eats live octopus (video)
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Fresh live octopus for breakfast! And one day at U Street Music Hall?
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Beehives: Founding Farmers partners with GW University in urban apiary
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Oh, sweet nectar. The largest restaurant-owned urban apiary's arrived in the District.
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