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The Italian Store is awesome! NY Style Pizza, philly hoagies, prepared italian foods....oh my! You MUST try it. Mmm. I have to confess that Italian stores around here haven't been the same since my visit to Boston. (A kingdom for some pignolis!) Thank you for the tip, though. ←

just turning email replies on. :)

The spice and appliance store ( a few blocks from me) closed a couple fo months ago. They are building anew building there. The store will reopen when the building does. My arlington grocery picks: Whole foods small latin grocery on wilson, behind whole foods. has a meat dept. Euro Latino Grocery on Washington blvd near pershing. get goat tacos and lorocco pupusas at El Charrito caminante while nearby. Euro Latino caters to brazilians, portuguese, and hispanics. they even import fresh sardines, octopus etc. and they freezae some of it, so it is always around. they have a meat dept too, with an argentine butcher. Lebanese taverna market on old dominion near lee highway. arrowine for wine and cheese. lee highway. If you want this weeks email circular...message me. M slavin and sons in s.arlington for fish. The Swedish Fish (has another name) behind the VA Square giant (Washington blvd) for fish and scandinavian products. small selection, but very fresh, since owner is a seafood distributer. The Italian Store. btw...they have great ny pizza and philly hoagies too. I've never been to the 2 fillepino groceries. one is next to a filepino restaurant and one is on lee highway. Also, not in Arlington, but closeby on Wilson....Asian groceries at Eden Center (A Vietnamese dining and food shopping area). I have a DC area ethnic grocery link somewhere. Message me if u need it.

Around here (near a grad and law school that have free wireless to students) the cafes have free wireless, non secured.) I wouldn't even think of paying for wireless. Heck, some examples, all walking distance for places near me with free wireless: the apple store the cigar connection murky coffee (which is huge and the only one fo these I use) el mexicano (which is always empty)

And Trader Joe's has manchego cheaper than anyone else in my neck of the woods. yum. -Jason

The original Lebanese Taverna in Westover is good...but i like to get dessert a block away at Arax (armenian) coffehouse, aminly cuz i like thier namoura (honey cake w/rosewater). Never been to the one at Pentagon City.

There is also Oasis, a 24 hour cafe (w/hookas) in Skyline (Alexandria/Falls Church border.)

it is about a mile from me, but haven't gotten there yet. What specifically is good there? Please don't say "everything". :)

They (Commerce dept.) consider dumping one of two things: Selling it below what production costs. Or selling it more cheaply here than they do in the home country. The problem with the first defination is how production costs are calculated.: In some of these countries (China, Vietnam), the gov't foots a lot of the costs such as electricity. they are non market economies. It means their expenses are different than ours (and may not be taken into account.) a lot of these countries farm shrimp, as opposed to (over) fishing from the sea, like we do. a lot of this imported shrimp is processed (canned, frozen, flavored, etc...) but the commerce dept does not take that into account. they use a formula to convert what the shrimp would have cost to produce if it had not been processed. but it had already been processed, so it is undervalued. for a laugh: http://www.citac.info/shrimp/about/doc_frankenshrimp.htm (yes, propaganda, i know, but still.)

Glad you liked the links. I basically wrote the paper from the perspective of the Shrimp Alliance, but figured I'd better know both sides of the issue.

I imagine that's true!Good job. What's your major? Thanks. :) I'm an MPA (Masters in Public Administration) major. That was actually my first grad school class (and paper). Figured' I'd get a head start during the summer and take one class. :)

While I was against the idea at the beginning...I've gotten used to CVS giving me bonus bucks occassionally. They just gave me $8 in bonus bucks. supermarket wise...i dont like the idea of having to use a card to get sales. but...it is nice that you can tie upromise to your member cards.

Oh, and propaganda from both sides of the issue: http://www.citac.info/shrimp/index.php http://www.shrimpalliance.com/

I just wrote a grad school term paper on this (for a Public Policy Process class). I think the professor was happy to not have to read another paper on gay marraige, the FCC, or cap. punishment (the more popular subjects). heh :)

where did you have the crappy mexican? The tacos you describe (2 unfried corn tortillas + choice of meat + spicy sauce, lime, cilantro) can be found at a restaurant on Washington Blvd in Arlington called El Charrito. They are amazing. i second el charrito. so good. i like the goat tacos, beef tacos, and chorizo tacos. oh, and the lorocco pupusas!

El Charrito Caminante (2710 n washington blvd), 1/2 a mile from Clarendon for dirt cheap, really good tacos. counters and stools only. my favs are the goat, beef, and chorizo tacos ($2), or the lorocco pupusa ($1.50 mexican herb and cheese.) you can ask for spicy...but you can also try the taco and say you like things hotter, and maybe they'll share their personal hotsauce w/you, which they make for themselves. Bukhara (now called Sangam) at n glebe and washington blvd for indian. i like the pickled hot peppers at lebanese taverna. and i like lebanese taverna. i go to the one in Westover, but there is one at Pentagon City.

Geranio is still good. :)

ate there and it was good, but the in NY has much much much much better frites.

A couple of weeks ago i found a nice sake set (in the original box, and made in japan) with (i think) a persimmon design at a yard sale in Arlington for $3. I don't even want to know how much it would be in stores. We went to an indoor yard sale yesterday, and they had a lot of kitchen stuff, but I didn't get anything. too pricey for yard sale.

Wok N Roll in Chinatown for terrible bubbletea. :)

Closest to Arlington (Besides the places in Eden Center) that i've heard of is: A little icecream place called Lee's (I think that's the name) serves bubble tea. It's located in Tysons Mall on the lower level near the Cinnabon.. But I never did check it out. I don't know about SS but Rockville/Bethesda has several bubble tea places. DC has a couple as well.

Shamshirry's is a persian pace with great pilafs....but it looks like you are looking for more upscale.l

Can't remember the name of the nyc French restaurant offhand but its on 9th ave in the 40s or 50s. And...while we were eating...the owner (or manager) was at the back table with a pile of cash. He was counting out money and giving it to employees, and cursing. And the waiters were complaining in Spanish about being undertipped. And the food kinda sucked. Never went back.

Hmmm...divey but good? El Charrito Caminante in Arlington is my TOP CHOICE, 2710 Washington Blvd(1/2 mile from Clarendon). No tables or chairs. two counters and some stools. they used to own a taco truck. But great tacos and cheap. I like the goat, beef, or chorizo tacos, and teh lorocco pupusas. And the counter guy is really nice. Plus the pupusas are made by hand to order. Cafe Tirolo in Ballston (Arlington)...HIDDEN behind Tara Thai. You bus your own tables, but it is good affordible Italian and Austrian food. Very limited hours.Mon--friday 1130am-230pm and mon-thurs 5-9pm. I lean towards their Italian food. And the pear/almond tart is great. they were listed in Washingtonians cheap eats that just came out. El Pollo Rico in VA Square (Arlington) area. amazing rotisserie chicken but they only have that...and 2 sides. they were in that same article. This is where the GMU law and grad students eat. I would have said Churreria Madrid in DC, but they redid it, and it isn't a dive anymore, although it is still affordible. Was there the other night dunking churros in hot chocolate, and smelling other people's paella. Joe's Noodle House in Rockville. :) Myanmar (Burmese) in Falls Church.

I think I may have actually done take-out from that place the last time I was in San Francisco. Pretty good Indian food; I recall being told by a local that he didn't know of anyone who'd had the pizza. High up on the weird places I've eaten list has to be the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, Nevada. It's about 130 miles north of Vegas and notorious in certain circles for being the closest populated spot to Area 51. A roadside diner decorated with UFO-related paraphernalia, with pro-gun and -smoking messages mixed in. The weirdest place I've eaten, not a restaurant, had to be a picnic lunch at the bottom of a subsidence crater at the Nevada Test Site. Foodgeek's memory of the restaurant with the moosehead reminded me of a bar in Utah I went to many years ago that had an extensive collection of mounted animal heads, small and large, the centerpiece of which was a St. Bernard. Actuallly.....now taht I think of it...another thing that makesd Old Devil Moon strange is that they run a baked goods business called Masterbakers out of the back. It sells...um...adult cakes and such.