Top Tomato winners have drama in the dish

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  • Top Tomato winners have drama in the dish

    Top Tomato winners have drama in the dish

    This year’s winning reader recipes came with winning stories as well.

    Jane Touzalin

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  • Tomato perfection, plus a little fire

    Tomato perfection, plus a little fire

    Our Smoke Signals columnist says: Grill them and/or smoke them, then think soup.

    Jim Shahin

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  • Julia Child’s kitchen reopens for her birthday

    Julia Child’s kitchen reopens for her birthday

    After a seven-month hiatus, the culinary icon’s exhibit reopens at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History.

    Bonnie S. Benwick

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Featured Recipes

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2012-13 cooking class listing

2012-13 cooking class listing

Instructors and organizations have until Aug. 31 to submit listings.

Drinks

Capitol Cocktails: Tabard Cocktail

HANDOUT IMAGE: Tabard Cocktail. credit: Tory Pugliese/'Capitol Cocktails'

Chantal Tseng, the Tabard Inn’s head mixologist likes using sherries, herbs and loose-leaf teas.

Wine recommendations

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 1: Wine for Aug. 15 column photographed in Washington, DC. (Photo by Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post)

Dave McIntyre suggests Chilean wines.

Chilean wines making a comeback

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 1: Wine for Aug. 15 column photographed in Washington, DC. (Photo by Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post)

Hot in the 1990s but recently overshadowed by it’s neighboring Argentina, Chile is making wines worth a fresh look.

Readers’ top recipe picks for July

Readers’ top recipe picks for July

A bar cookie studded with M&M candies headed last month’s list.

All We Can Eat

The ‘essence’ of tomatoes

Tomato goo.

Edward Schneider

Cooking Off the Cuff suggests you save the gel and juice inside your tomatoes and turn them into a tasty sauce.

Immigrant’s Table extra: Shark fin soup

Crabmeat shark soup at New Kam Fong in Wheaton.

Tim Carman

What exactly is in the crabmeat-shark soup at New Kam Fong? We investigate.

The swine flue

Spot at trough.

Tamar Haspel

Pig snouts inhale only the good stuff, like pizza crusts and fish skin, and leave behind the cabbage.

Farmers market roundup: Aug. 16-Aug. 22

MT. AIRY, MD - SEPT 25: Vineyard co-owner Sarah O'Herron shows off some just harvested grapes at the Black Ankle Vineyards in Mt. Airy, Maryland. (Photo by Michael Williamson/The Washington Post)

Becky Krystal

This week, pick up local green and red grapes.

Chefs Feed app: Politics of the plate

Tim Carman

The smartphone app promises to send you to your favorite chefs’ favorite restaurants. Or at least to their best friends’ restaurants.

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Recipe Finder

Tom Sietsema

First Bite: Mayfair & Pine

WASHINGTON, DC - August 8: The lamb burger served with garlic aioli, your choice of Manchego or white cheddar cheese and herb-seasoned fries on a brioche bun at the Mayfair & Pine restaurant at 2218 Wisconsin, Ave. Washington, DC, on Wednesday, August 8, 2012. (Photo by Daniel C. Britt / The Washington Post)

Tom Sietsema

The food critic’s favorite among the family-friendly offerings is a salad of Boston lettuce with candied apple rings and diced jicama.

First Bite: Hank’s Oyster Bar on Capitol Hill

Gina Chersevani shaves ice to make a cocktail at the new Hank’s Oyster Bar in Capitol Hill.

Tom Sietsema

Gina Chersevani’s got her own Eddy Bar at the third of Jamie Leeds’s seafood restaurants.

Del Frisco’s Grille in the District

The open kitchen at Del Frisco’s Grille in the District is at the heart of the noisy dining room.

Tom Sietsema

The Dallas import manages to touch on a lot of wishes without mastering many.

First Bite: Turmeric in Vienna

VIENNA, VA - JULY 10: Saag Pineer -- homemade cottage cheese atop spinach puree with onions, herbs and spices -- at the Turmeric restaurant in Vienna, VA, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. The former Aditi Indian Kitchen boasts a new menu and a new look. It was recently remodeled into what could pass for a small art gallery. (Photo by Daniel C. Britt / The Washington Post)

Tom Sietsema

The spicy name has goodwill behind it, and the design and food are fetching.

First Bite: El Chucho in Columbia Heights

WASHINGTON, DC- JULY 09 Chimichangas con chimichurri, stuffed with mushrooms, cabbage, beans and chihuahua cheese at El Chuco Restaurant in Washington, D.C. on July 09, 2012. FOOD 7/18 -- For Tom's weekly restaurant preview. (Photo by: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

Tom Sietsema

Chef Diana Davila-Boldin, who is Mexican by heritage, put together a menu of street food with a twist.

Editor's Choice

Good to Go: Slider Barron food truck

Trios of small sandwiches can make for a surprisingly filling meal.

Farmers market listings

The Washington Post Food section’s 2012 listing and map of farmers markets in the area.

2011-2012 cooking class listings

Search among 16 categories and hundreds of classes given in the District and in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs.

Power outage and food: What to pitch, what to keep

Here are tips for preserving what you can from a power outage that lasts a few days.

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