Thank you everyone who attended Wednesday’s DC Food Blogger Happy Hour, including the two wonderful local authors mentioned below. And, thank you to Cuba Libre for being our venue and providing wonderful food for us to sample. It was fun being the event host for this one.

The happy hour was a book launch for two local new releases, a cookbook, The New Chesapeake Kitchen by John Shields, and a book about eating local, The Chesapeake Table by Renee Catacalos. Both authors spoke at the event. There was even a raffle which included free copies of both books, and several bottles of Dizzy Pig seasonings. Plus, we had Pacari Organic Chocolate gift bags and Dizzy Pig sample packets on hand.

Above you can view images of the food we sampled. Personally, I was most impressed with the Cauliflower Hummus (I made everyone try it), Tropical Chips, Spinach & Manchego Bunuelos, and Albondigas (meatballs). They had various caipirinhas available as happy hour specials; I sampled the guava version.

Somebody make sure to inform me if Cuba Libre ever puts the Blood Orange Salmon Ceviche back on the menu.

-JAY

Editor’s Note:

An attendee posted these pictures from the event:

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