Posts Tagged ‘Mall’
DC in Cookies
This week, the Four Seasons Hotel unveiled a gingerbread replica of the Smithsonian Castle. Talk about a sugar rush. To make this three-foot-high confection, Executive Pastry Chef Charles Froke used 100 pounds of gingerbread dough, 50 pounds of icing, 30 pounds of icing for snow, 20 pounds of sugar, and five pounds of chocolate. It [...]
More »Here Comes the Sun: Solar Houses on the Mall
‘Spain’s sun-worshipping house’courtesy of ’snapzdc’
The National Mall sure looks different these days, ever since they put in that new subdivision. What, you haven’t seen them? All those little houses run completely by the sun? Yes, it’s time for another Solar Decathlon!
In this event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy every other year, 20 teams [...]
