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By Alice Levitt, James Finley, Kelly Kendall, and Michele Kettner
Alice, Alice, Pumpkin Eater
“Though there are plenty of pumpkin dishes (literally) ripe for celebrating the harvest season right now, the very best to be had is at Bostan Uyghur Cuisine in Arlington’s Cherrydale neighborhood. Let the thin-skinned pumpkin dumplings on offer there take you on a trip to Central Asia. I’ll be marking one of my favorite times of year with my favorite cuisine.” –Alice Levitt, food editor/critic
Home Cooking
“Now that Halloween is over, it’s time to start thinking about Thanksgiving. With my family already making plans, I’ve got to come up with a new dish for the table. This week, I’ll be enlisting the help of Vienna’s own David Chang, the founder of Momofuku, by picking up a copy of Cooking at Home to perfect a meal that everyone will love.” –Michele Kettner, associate digital & research editor
Queen of the Road
“Before it gets any colder, I’m going to take a weekend trip to Charlottesville, complete with a horseback tour that stops at a winery. The new Dairy Market food hall, with artisan food purveyors in a restored 1930s building, sounds extremely cool, too.” –Kelly Kendall, editor
Leafing Through
“You don’t need to be a hardcore, binocular-wearing leaf peeper (Is that what they do?) to get out among our top sites for fall leaves. Manassas National Battlefield has 40 miles of hiking trails and lots of popular history tours to check out, making the foreground as interesting as the background.”–James Finley, senior editor
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