Daily Archives: July 16, 2009

Central Texas Q by Way of Chelsea?

by Kriston Capps

This is how you make barbecue in Central Texas:

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And this is where it comes from:

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So how do you fit all that here?:

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In July 2010, Bethesda-native Marc Glosserman proposes to bring his wildly successful Central Texas–style Chelsea barbecue joint Hill Country to Penn Quarter. Will it work?

As IFA readers know it’s extremely difficult to open a restaurant in the District. Now, Glosserman’s just printing money from his location in Chelsea. I don’t think he’ll have much of a problem in this regard, provided that he’s patient. (Something that might be harder to pull off in Penn Quarter: a live music stage.) The larger question is whether he can fit a smokehouse into a storefront.
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Daily Food Porn: Plum and Almond Tart

By Kay Steiger

by Flickr user beyondramen

by Flickr user beyondramen

Beyond Ramen took her share of plums from her CSA and made this delicious dessert. This photo and others can be found on our IFA Food Porn photo pool.

Lunch And Game Theory

By Spencer Ackerman

Picture 1If you don’t know, well now you know. I had little choice but to reply.

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Interesting lunch/game theory question. On the one hand, sharing these tweets with you might lead you to get the Fojol crew over to your neighborhood. But on the other hand, the fusillade of tweets that can be reasonably expected to result from this post might instruct Fojol about a variety of destinations that want to be blessed by their cart, leading them to see that a robust lunch business can be yielded and we can all get our Fojolia. Yet that conjecture still makes posting a risky strategy if the desired result is me having my Fojol today. But is the prospect of Fojol yields in the future — a potentially recursive phenomenon — more valuable than Fojol yields on any given day? Gaming out lunch is a knife’s-edge exercise.