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Arganica Week 5

Arganica Week 5

We decided to add a second "trial month" to our Arganica membership. We repeated some favorites from earlier weeks and tried new things too. This week we received:

Plain Yogurt (with "yogurt cream" on top ... delicious)
Cucumber
Red Onion
Fresh Parsley
Avocado
Hydroponic Lettuce
Croissant
Lemon Poppy Scone
Granola
Polyface Farms Delmonico Ribeye Steak

... and a local food magazine.

Arganica Week 3

Arganica Week 3

This week we received our third Arganica delivery (apologies for forgetting to take a picture and post about our second delivery, which included locally milled flour).

This week's delivery includes:

Farm Eggs
Pizza Dough
Roasted Garlic Linguini
Cremini Mushrooms
York Apples
Hydroponic Lettuce
Avocado
Parsley

When this 1-month trial is done (next week), expect a longer post on our overall experience.

Another Great Community Event - P&C Market

P&C

Fresh off the heels of last night's community dinner, tonight we went to a neighborhood roast pig / pot luck dinner at P&C Market.

A Literary Feast

Literary Feast

Last night we participated in the 5th annual Capitol Hill Literary Feast. We prioritized four books/cuisines and were delighted to be assigned to the Unaccustomed Earth dinner. The book is a collection of short stores, all about first generation Bengali-Americans and their struggles to blend their parents' Indian heritage with their American upbringing. Its an outstanding book, especially for anyone whose family has recently emigrated to America (from anywhere, not just India).

Cherry Blossom Photos!

Audrey and I braved the tourist throngs to stroll around the DC tidal basin to check out the blossoms and have a a picnic after work.

Fishmongers

We walked down to the Fish Market at the DC Waterfront to explore:

Paris Photos

Better late than never, our Paris set:

The Housing Price Index for the US, 2002-6

GapMinder (See the TED presentation) and Google now have motion charts - if you have time series, they have an awesome visualization tool.

Check out this tool charting housing costs against unemployment in the US

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