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If this is your first visit, read these:
-- Welcome
-- General Remarks
-- Six Rules for Dining Out
- Tyler Cowen's home page
- Marginal Revolution
- The Complete TCED Guide (June 2019) (127-page PDF)
- Metro Trip Planner
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Rasika West End (Rasika II)
Rasika West End (Rasika II), web site, 1177 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC, 202-466-2500 (Metro Trip Planner – opens in new window) [Google | WaPo | dishtip (Rasika) | Washingtonian | Yelp | Gayot] Now better than Rasika proper, the … Continue reading
Posted in DC, Downtown, Dupont Circle, Indian
Tagged dc, Rasika, Rasika II, Rasika West, Rasika West End
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“Getting a good meal in D.C. requires some ruthless economics”
This piece is by me, in The Washington Post. Here is one bit: The key is to hit these restaurants in the “sweet spot” of their cycle of rise and fall. At any point in time Washington probably has five … Continue reading
Posted in Beautiful Women, DC, General Tips
Tagged beautiful women, Chuck Berry, sweet spot
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Keren Restaurant
Keren Restaurant, 1780 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC (near 18th and U Streets NW), 202-265-5764 (Metro Trip Planner – opens in new window) [Google | AllMenus | City Paper | Yelp] This place is exactly what more ethnic restaurants in … Continue reading
Posted in African, Current Favorites, DC, Eritrean, Ethiopian, U Street / Shaw
Tagged dc, Egg Ful, Eritrean, Keren, Keren Restaurant
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Food Rules!
So how did American food fall to the depths of 1960? In Cowen’s view, it wasn’t the doing of greedy agribusiness in league with the Mad Men. Three great tsunamis wrecked the American palate: Prohibition, the Emergency Quota Act of … Continue reading
Posted in An Economist Gets Lunch, Books
Tagged An Economist Gets Lunch, Emergency Quota Act of 1921, empire of children, Jerry Weinberger, Prohibition
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Scaling the Great Wall
Great Wall Supermarket, web site, 2982 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA, 703-208-3320 (Metro Trip Planner – opens in new window) [Patch | Yahoo Local | Yelp] Here is my essay from Washingtonian magazine, adapted from An Economist Gets Lunch, about … Continue reading
Posted in An Economist Gets Lunch, Books, Fairfax, Food Stores, Virginia
Tagged An Economist Gets Lunch, Falls Church, Great Wall, Great Wall Supermarket, live animals
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The Independent on “An Economist Gets Lunch”
The review is here, by Will Dean, the summary is here: If you’re interested in how the food and restaurant industries work – and how to exploit those factors for your own good – then Cowen’s work is indispensable. And: … Continue reading
Posted in An Economist Gets Lunch, Books
Tagged An Economist Gets Lunch, Will Dean
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“The Washington Post” covers “An Economist Gets Lunch”
Cowen fears the effects of gentrification, which tends to drive up real estate rates and drive out ethnic restaurants. It can also lead to blander food. But if defense funding is cut, and the impact is felt locally, that would … Continue reading
Posted in An Economist Gets Lunch, Books
Tagged An Economist Gets Lunch, Bang Ga Nae, Tim Carman, Tom Jackman
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“Don’t hate the haute”
Don’t go into a restaurant with many beautiful women in it, says economist Tyler Cowen. Those places attract a lot of men, and although they may be popular for a few months the quality inevitably will soon diminish. Don’t go … Continue reading
Posted in An Economist Gets Lunch, Books
Tagged An Economist Gets Lunch, Daniel Newman
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