It is the winter, and D.C. is a condo town. We don’t have a plot of land, and space in the local community garden is impossible to come by. Even if we did have a patch of our own, it’s so frigid outside that even Joel Salatin couldn’t farm grass on it. So, how to indulge our green thumb indoors? Enter the AeroGarden. The AeroGarden, which costs about $150, is an aeroponic garden that relies…

Food with a Side of Sexy? In Wednesday’s Food Section of the Washington Post, we were served alternately sexy and prudish food features. Sexy: In response to a reader who asked Tom Sietsema’s opinion on “sexiest food,” he responded, “Mangoes in the bath tub get my vote. Or caviar on scrambled eggs, served in bed.” Hmm. Mangos in the bathtub. I had not yet thought of that. What else would you add to the…

Most D.C. restaurateurs knew him simply as “Vas,” but at Washington-area farmer’s markets he was known as Pennsylvania farming powerhouse Mark Toigo’s right-hand man at Toigo Orchards. Unfortunately, what should have been a quick trip home to the Czech Republic and visa renewal for food fixture Vaclav “Vas” Trnka became a messy citizenship fiasco. It all started back in the late 1990s, when Vas lived with the American embassy’s chef in Prague, picking up catering…