The Georgetown Metropolitan

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Some businesses upset with how the BID is run.
• By the way, if you’re having trouble getting a vaccine booster at CVS or Safeway, GM got his relatively smoothly at Morgan’s. Check them out!

Last year GM received an email from ANC Commissioner Elizabeth Miller seeking contributions to a recipe book she was pulling together. The aim was to get recipes from dozens of people around the neighborhood, covering all types of culinary types, and collect them in a book to be sold for charity. GM’s happy to report that the book is finally here and perfect for your holiday gift-giving!

The book is called “Georgetown Cooks” and it contains over 150 recipes from names you will likely recognize, like Tom Birch’s wine jello, Kristin Cecchi’s cream of chicken soup, or Nancy Taylor Bubes’ Brunswick stew. And you’ll get GM’s mother’s fantastic ginger snap recipe, a classic Christmas cookie.

And best of all, because the publishing was taken care of by Bubes, 100% of the proceeds go to Georgetown’s Lombardi Cancer Center to help fight Ewing’s Sarcoma. Copies can be purchased here! (As of yesterday, the book has already raised over $10,000!) Pick one (or more) up today!

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The story of Follies, a toy brand that was started at the Halcyon House.
• What you can get at Nosh, the restaurant that replaced Ledo’s pizza.

Do you like cookies? Of course you do! Do you like tours? Well, maybe right? But what if the tour is about cookies? Jackpot.

Next month, Georgetown Main Street is organizing the first (annual?) Georgetown Cookie Tour. For just $25 you’ll get to a passport to a free cookie at twelve different bakeries and sweet shops around the neighborhood. Which will be a good way to burn off some of the calories!

The tour is on December 11 and tickets can be bought here. Don’t miss it!

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Georgetown roots of Sweetgreen.
• The very small window when ginkgoes aren’t a waste of a tree box is now! Hopefully it tides you over for the other 50 weeks.

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, GM is checking out a photo of the old M St. Bridge. The photo, from the DDOT archives, shows the bridge in 1911 before it was rebuilt into its current form fifteen years later.

GM would try to sum up the history of this bridge, but Wikipedia does it well enough already:

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The DC indoor mask mandate ends next week, but Georgetown University has already stated it will continue on campus.
• Robbery Monday night at 29th and M, just feet from the deadly shooting last month. Seems bad!