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Skriven 2014-06-04 00:38:00 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
Ärende: Picnic 2014
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Picnic 2014

The 2014 Cooking Echo Picnic will be held at our house in Columbia, MD.
The dates will be from Thursday June 26 through Monday June 30.  

I will send out an email to those of you who I expect to come giving
contact information, etc.  As of now, that is the Hafflys, the Fords,
Dave Drum, Michael Loo, Nancy Backus and the Shipps.  We would like you
to respond with planned arrival day and estimated time of arrival.

The picnic proper will be on Sunday June 29, with Monday being the
"leftover day".

Shopping: For those who want to get supplies for the picnic:

Closest regular grocery store is Safeway -- 5 minute drive.

Wegman's is a bit further, perhaps 15 minute drive.

BJs is nearly the same place as Wegmans (Sorry Nancy -- no gas there).

Costco is perhaps a 15 minute drive (there is gas for members there).

There is a small Indian grocery store that is about 10 minutes away.
They have a pretty good stock of spices, lentils and other things.

The favored Korean Grocery store is H-Mart, about 20 minutes away.  I
think that all of you went there during our last picnic here.


Depending on the desires of the group, we may go out to local
restaurants.  Or -- if the choice is to just cook something in our
kitchen, that will be ok as well.  We could just sit, chat and eat each
night and throughout the day.

If the group wants to go out, here are some suggestions for places to
choose from.

Indian:  There are two good Indian buffet that we would recommend.  The
Royal Tai is highly rated by Trip Advisor and has a very good noon time
buffet, better on the weekend.  We went there for evening dinner with
Nancy and Michael a while back and IMO the buffet is much better than
the evening fare.  Another Indian restaurant is called Flavors of India.
It also has a noon time buffet.  Gail and I went to the buffet on a
Saturday and think it is a bit better than Royal Tai.  We also had a
very good evening meal there.

URLS: http://www.royaltajmd.com/
http://www.flavorsofindiainc.com/

Korean: Honey Pig (URL = http://www.eathoneypig.com/ ) is a Korean grill
type of place.  We went there with Michael once a while back.  What we
had was good.

Greek: Dimitris (URL = http://www.dimitris.us/ )is a place that many
(all?) of you have been to.  We went there with the group at our last
picnic held here.  They are a very good place.

Seafood: There are many choices for Maryland seafood.  We don't really
know many of them well.  When Michael gets connected to the echo again,
perhaps he might have some suggestions.  One place we have been to
multiple times is Anne Arundel Seafood in Pasadena MD.  It is about 30
minutes away.  We usually get the fish or fish&chips, but they have
other fresh seafood as well.
URL= http://www.aaseafood.com/ and some reviews on Yelp at
http://www.yelp.com/biz/anne-arundel-seafood-pasadena .

Pit Beef:  our favorite for pit beef is a small, no frills place called
Pioneer.  Some of you have been there.  It does not have a web page, but
here is a link to Yelp discussion:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/pioneer-pit-beef-windsor-mill .
They are close to H-Mart, and only open for lunch.

Columbia has pretty much one of every chain restaurant you might think
of -- except for two of our favorites, Texas Roadhouse and Bonefish.
The ones we would recommend would be Carrabba's and Red Robin.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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