Nov
8
Sat
Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show @ Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Nov 8 @ 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show

November 8th and 9th

 

MetroCooking DC’s Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show has become DC region’s premier event for the specialty food, culinary, and entertaining community. The 9th edition of MetroCooking DC will be held November 8-9, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Join me and Dolci Gelati in the Grand Tasting Pavillion for a two day culinary and entertaining event brings together more than 18,000 consumers to shop, dine and drink. MetroCooking DC engages the consumer market by offering a unique culinary experience featuring appearances by Food Network celebrities, a multitude of DC’s James Beard award winning chefs, tastings from DC’s most noted restaurants, beer wine and spirits samplings, culinary classes, entertaining workshops, book signings, and more. Plus a marketplace full of shopping!  Purchase tickets here: http://www.metrocookingdc.com/tickets/

Nov
9
Sun
Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show @ Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Nov 9 @ 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show

November 8th and 9th

 

MetroCooking DC’s Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show has become DC region’s premier event for the specialty food, culinary, and entertaining community. The 9th edition of MetroCooking DC will be held November 8-9, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Join me and Dolci Gelati in the Grand Tasting Pavillion for a two day culinary and entertaining event brings together more than 18,000 consumers to shop, dine and drink. MetroCooking DC engages the consumer market by offering a unique culinary experience featuring appearances by Food Network celebrities, a multitude of DC’s James Beard award winning chefs, tastings from DC’s most noted restaurants, beer wine and spirits samplings, culinary classes, entertaining workshops, book signings, and more. Plus a marketplace full of shopping!  Purchase tickets here: http://www.metrocookingdc.com/tickets/

Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show @ Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Nov 9 @ 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show

November 8th and 9th

 

MetroCooking DC’s Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show has become DC region’s premier event for the specialty food, culinary, and entertaining community. The 9th edition of MetroCooking DC will be held November 8-9, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Join me and Dolci Gelati in the Grand Tasting Pavillion for a two day culinary and entertaining event brings together more than 18,000 consumers to shop, dine and drink. MetroCooking DC engages the consumer market by offering a unique culinary experience featuring appearances by Food Network celebrities, a multitude of DC’s James Beard award winning chefs, tastings from DC’s most noted restaurants, beer wine and spirits samplings, culinary classes, entertaining workshops, book signings, and more. Plus a marketplace full of shopping!  Purchase tickets here: http://www.metrocookingdc.com/tickets/

Nov
12
Wed
John Bicknell Book Signing Event @ Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital
Nov 12 @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Join CQ Roll Call and Hooks Book Events as they host John Bicknell for a book-signing event Wednesday, November 12th.

6 p.m. EST

LOCATION: Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital   

Food & beverages will be served.

Complimentary copies of the book will be distributed on a first come first served basis.

 

America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation

 

About the book:

The presidential election of 1844 was one of the two or three most momentous elections in American history. Had Henry Clay won instead of James K. Polk, we’d be living in a very different country today. Polk’s victory cemented the westward expansion that brought Texas, California, and Oregon into the union. It also took place amid religious turmoil that included anti-Mormon and anti-Catholic violence, and the “Great Disappointment,” in which thousands of followers of an obscure preacher named William Miller believed Christ would return to earth in October 1844.

Author and journalist John Bicknell details even more compelling, interwoven events that occurred during this momentous year: the murder of Joseph Smith, the religious fermentation of the Second Great Awakening, John C. Frémont’s exploration of the West, Charles Goodyear’s patenting of vulcanized rubber, the near-death of President John Tyler in a freak naval explosion, and much more. All of these elements illustrate the competing visions of the American future—Democrats versus Whigs, Mormons versus Millerites, nativists versus Catholics, those who risked the venture westward versus those who stayed safely behind—and how Polk’s election cemented the vision of a continental nation.

About the author:

John Bicknell is the Executive Editor of @FCWnow in lives in Haymarket, VA.  Follow on Twitter: @JohnBick1960

Nov
14
Fri
Exclusive Spring/Summer 2015 Trend Presentation at Gilt City DC Warehouse Sale @ THE ANGELIKA Pop Up At Union Market
Nov 14 @ 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Fashion Group International of Greater Washington, DC, Inc.

presents

Spring/Summer 2015 Trend Presentation at THE ANGELIKA Pop Up At Union Market

Friday, November 14, 2014
*Doors Open at 5:30 PM
*
FILM begins promptly at 6PM

All ticket holders will receive EXPEDITED ENTRY to
GILT CITY DC 
Warehouse Sale & John Varvatos Pop Up

Doors open for private shopping experience at 7 PM

@FGIDC      #FGIDC    #GILTCITY

Click HERE or  http://fgidcsstrendgiltcity.eventbrite.com to get your tickets

Nov
15
Sat
FFP Special Burnch & Shopping Event @ Karen Millen Tysons Galleria
Nov 15 @ 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Join Fashion Fights Poverty and Karen Millen at Tysons Galleria for a special brunch and shopping event.

Saturday, November 15, 2014 10AM1PM.

10% of sales will be donated to Fashion Fights Poverty.

RSVP for event via email to RSVP@fashionfightspoverty.org.
Nov
18
Tue
Sean Brock Introduces Book “Heritage” @ America Eats Tavern
Nov 18 @ 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

On Tuesday, November 18, José Andrés and ThinkFoodGroup will host Sean Brock—the James Beard Award-winning Chef of McCrady’s and Husk Restaurants—at America Eats Tavern to celebrate his new cookbook: Heritage. For $60, tickets include a taste from the cookbook courtesy of America Eats Tavern Head Chef Nate Waugaman, local wines from Virginia’s own Trump Winery, and a signed copy of the book.

The reception will take place in the front bar and private dining room in a passed bite/drink format. The restaurant will remain open for business should guests decide to stay for dinner (price not included in ticket).

What: Sean Brock cookbook party at America Eats Tavern

When: Tuesday, Nov 18 from 6:30—8:30pm

Where: America Eats Tavern (1700 Tysons Blvd inside the Ritz Carlton at Tysons Corner; McLean, VA) *By Metro – Silver Line to Tysons Corner

How: To purchase tickets, visit https://nvite.com/BrockatAmericaEats/brockatamericaeats

Nov
21
Fri
JLW Holiday Shops @ Sphinx Club
Nov 21 @ 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

The Junior League of Washington’s annual fundraising event, Holiday Shops at the Sphinx Club in downtown Washington, D.C., begins Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23. The weekend-long event will offer general shopping hours, including 60 unique specialty boutiques from across the country, and special events, including a silent and live auction.

Proceeds from sponsors, patrons, a silent and live auction, a raffle, and a portion of merchant sales will benefit the mission of the JLW. Last year, the event raised nearly $140,000.

General Shopping tickets are $5 per day and can be purchased by cash or check at the door.

Date: November 20 – November 23, 2014

 

Location: The Sphinx Club — 1315 K Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20005

 

Shopping Hours: Friday, November 21, 2014 — 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, November 22, 2014 — 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday, November 23, 2014 — 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

 

Nov
22
Sat
JLW Holiday Shops @ Sphinx Club
Nov 22 @ 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

The Junior League of Washington’s annual fundraising event, Holiday Shops at the Sphinx Club in downtown Washington, D.C., begins Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23. The weekend-long event will offer general shopping hours, including 60 unique specialty boutiques from across the country, and special events, including a silent and live auction.

Proceeds from sponsors, patrons, a silent and live auction, a raffle, and a portion of merchant sales will benefit the mission of the JLW. Last year, the event raised nearly $140,000.

General Shopping tickets are $5 per day and can be purchased by cash or check at the door.

Date: November 20 – November 23, 2014

 

Location: The Sphinx Club — 1315 K Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20005

 

Shopping Hours: Friday, November 21, 2014 — 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, November 22, 2014 — 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday, November 23, 2014 — 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

 

Dec
6
Sat
Holiday Open House and Christkindlmarkt @ Heurich House Museum
Dec 6 @ 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

The Heurich House Museum welcomes the public to celebrate the winter season during its annual Holiday Open House and Christkindlmarkt on Saturday, December 6 and Sunday, December 7 from 12-6 pm. The museum will honor the Heurich family’s German heritage by recreating a traditional German public Christmas market in its garden.  This holiday shopping event, Dupont Circle’s only holiday market, will feature goods from local artisans, including jewelers, ceramicists, chocolatiers, coffee roasters, and makers of housewares, baby clothes, and more. Visitors who enter the Open House may stroll through the festively decorated historic mansion on a self-guided tour, enjoy the sounds of live holiday musical performances in the Conservatory, and bid on traditional Nutcrackers during a silent auction.  The museum will be collecting new and gently used children’s books for a local children’s charity book drive, and guests will have the opportunity to create ornaments to adorn the museum’s holiday tree. Café Berlin will sell Glühwein, sausages, strudel, and other authentic German treats.

Advance and At-The-Door tickets for the Open House are $15 for adults, $5 for children, and include access to the Christkindlmarkt. Tickets for the Christkindlmarkt are $5 and will only be available at the door.

For additional information including a full market vendor list, musical performance schedule, and tickets, please visit: http://www.heurichhouse.org/christkindlmarkt.