Welcome
June 15, 2006
Welcome to Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide in blog format. The Guide includes more than 450 restaurants in the Washington, DC area.
The Guide is also available in its original one-page format, and can be found via Tyler's web page at GMU. The current Guide is the February, 2006 edition.
For an overview, scope note, and general advice before using the Guide, please see "General remarks."
To look around, use the finding features located in the right hand column: Search, Current Favorites, and Categories.
Let us know what places you recommend, and if a place listed here has closed, changed its name, or moved: tcowen [at] gmu.edu
If you're looking for Tyler's other blog, it is Marginal Revolution.
Comments and trackbacks are moderated to avoid junking them up with spam.
Here are some articles by or about Tyler Cowen and his Ethnic Dining Guide:
- "Ethnic Goes Exurban: Washington's Sprawl, As Told Through Its Migrating Restaurants," by Tyler Cowen, The Washington Post, September 3, 2006
- "Off the Clock: For Mason Economics Professor, Good Ethnic Meals Make the Grade," by Tara Laskowski, The Mason Gazette, December 21, 2004
- "Chasing the Perfect Meal," by David Harrison, The Fairfax Connection, May 13, 2004
- "The Lone Critic: Tyler Cowen Writes Restaurant Reviews for Fun and Doesn't Care If Anyone Reads Them," by Douglas Hanks III, The Washington Post, June 20, 2001
Previous versions of the Guide:
Also see a paper presented in April 2004 to the International Association of Culinary Professionals (9-page pdf): "Is Globalization Changing the Way the World Eats?"
Links in both versions of the Guide open in the same window.
And don't forget, all food is ethnic food.
This post is dated April 1, 2010, to keep it at the top.
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Comments
When you are finished importing all the content, how about creating a Google Maps mashup with reviews linked to pins on a map. That way I can easily find a TC-recommended place for any neighborhood I happen to be in.
Check out http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ for inspiration.
Posted by: Mike | April 25, 2006 12:33 PM
http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/Tyler/20th%20Cowen.htm is not working, just to let you know.
Thanks!
Posted by: alec | May 20, 2006 07:57 PM
Thanks for alerting us. The pointer to the one-page html format is now working at
http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/Tyler/tyler_cowen.htm
You can now move between the two formats.
Posted by: Chug | May 21, 2006 01:14 PM
Al's Steakhouse in an icon in Alexandria. Great for carry-out. Call ahead for your Philly cheesesteak and go to a park to enjoy.
Posted by: Connie Southard | September 11, 2006 09:06 AM