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Cucina Vivace, a fledgling Italian trattoria in Crystal City, is a gluten-free friendly treat. My dining euphoria began when Chef Gordon Vivace made a trip to our table while we browsed the wine menu of more than 60 options from small vineyards across Italy (no Beringer’s Rose in this joint). His non-intrusive inquiry about our comfort with the wine menu and dinner choices was [...]

A few years ago, there was a pot luck luncheon at work and my coworker Leah made this chilled quinoa salad that has for some reason stuck in my brain as the quintessential summer flavor. I set out this weekend to make a quinoa summer salad of my own that satisfied my longing for the [...]

For years, Brandi has said it best: DC girls are “gals on the go” and need big purses to carry all their gear. For a long time, before I adopted a gluten-free lifestyle, when I needed a meal in my purse, I grabbed an Odwalla bar or a ZonePerfect bar. Now, I find or fear [...]

I have been a bad lil’ blogger. To make up for it, I humbly offer you what I’m digging right now in no particular order.
1. Gluten-free restaurant menus - in the area. That’s right, dedicated GF menus that you can ask your host or server to provide: P.F. Chang’s in Ballston (I love the Chang’s [...]

To know Adrian and I is to know Tallula and EatBar, a side-by-side pair of restaurants in Arlington, a short walk from the Clarendon metro. As sad as we were to see the dive-bar Whitey’s go a few years back when we lived a block away, its replacement, Tallula, has earned its own special place [...]