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Conference Food #5, and last

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

So the last conference food event was the OCLC President’s luncheon, always on the Monday of ALA – they herd several hundred people into a dining room in one of the hotels. The speech is usually a bit of a repeat of some of the things we hear at the update breakfast on Sunday, but [...]

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Conference Food #4

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Our last night in D.C., Sunday, after all those receptions, we had what I thought was the best dinner of the trip, at a place called Founding Farmers.
The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried – he  seemed to have a little [...]

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Conference Food #3

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Last night we had dinner at the great tapas place, Jaleo – but I didn’t take a single picture.
We had a largish group, 5 of us, so we got to sample ten tapas – we each ordered two:

potatoes cooked in tomato sauce, with super garlicy aoli
shrimp in garlic
gazpacho x2 – so I guess we really [...]

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Conference Food #2

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Last night we had dinner at a place called PS7. The guys – Mark & his son Ethan – liked it a lot, but I thought it was the kind of menu where all the dishes had too many ingredients, and none of the food looked like what it started off as.
Like the bread – [...]

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Conference Food, #1

Friday, June 25, 2010

I had a hot dog & fries for lunch, but I didn’t take a picture, at a place called the Billy Goat Grill & Tavern (named after the one in Chicago) – they didn’t have Chicago dogs with all the trimmings – the dog I got was plain, but nicely grilled – but they had [...]

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