{"id":1364,"date":"2010-06-29T20:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2010-06-29T20:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:09:14","slug":"conference-food-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/conference-food-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Food #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearefoundingfarmers.com\/\">Founding Farmers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried &#8211; he\u00a0 seemed to have a little of that overly precious, temple of food attitude &#8211; but it all worked out. The only thing I thought was that the menu was a little too hearty for the 97-degree weather outside. There were burgers and pork chops and mac and cheese. We started with a skillet corn bread, with corn kernels in. I had a fried chicken salad with bacon and avocado &#8211; a salad, but definitely on the rich side. I only ate half of it, and was still kind of too full. Mark got steak with green beans and mashed potatoes &#8211; the green beans were perfect.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good thing we had a walk, to aid digestion &#8211; past the White House, and through Lafayette Square, where we watched a duckie swim under the loops of water in the fountain &#8211; to get back to the hotel, to watch the 11:30 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/true-blood#\/true-blood\/episodes\/3\/27-it-hurts-me-too\/synopsis.html\/eNrjcmbOYM5nLtQsy0xJzXfMS8ypLMlMds7PK0mtKFHPz0mBCQUkpqf6JeamcjIyskknlpbkF+QkVtqWFJWmsjGyMQIAWCcXOA==\">repeat of vampires<\/a>.<br \/>\n<script>\/* <![CDATA[ *\/ portfolio_slideshow.slideshows[831] = {\"timeout\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"false\",\"trans\":\"fade\",\"loop\":1,\"speed\":\"\",\"nowrap\":1}; \/* ]]> *\/<\/script><div id=\"slideshow-wrapper831\" class=\"slideshow-wrapper clearfix portfolio-slideshow-centered\">\n<div id=\"slideshow-nav831\" class=\"slideshow-nav\">\n\t<a class=\"pause\" style=\"display:none\" 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The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried &#8211; he\u00a0 seemed to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,133,32],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-library-conferences","tag-local-organic","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}