{"id":2828,"date":"2018-06-21T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2018-06-21T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:28:21","slug":"the-inn-at-little-washingtons-40th-birthday-at-mount-vernon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"The Inn at Little Washington\u2019s 40th birthday at Mount Vernon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Inn at Little Washington is celebrating its 40th birthday in grand style this year. Mount Vernon (George Washington\u2019s home for those of you who never learned\/have forgotten your U.S. history) was the site of its most recent celebration. And what better place to celebrate one\u2019s birthday than at the home of the man who laid out Washington, Virginia as a surveyor? (Before he went on to some other career highlights.)<\/p>\n

Dress was \u201cgarden chic,\u201d which caused no small amount of consternation for our group. Stilettos or no stilettos? Long or short dress? Hat or no hat? Tie or no tie? (General consensus: no, short, no, no.)<\/p>\n

The reception was held in Martha Washington\u2019s garden with a troupe of colonial dancers, a generous caviar station, and a gaggle(?) of U.S. marshals (Supreme Court Justice Alito was one of the attendees).<\/p>\n

My favorite part of the event was, naturally, the mime.<\/p>\n

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The dinner was held in a giant tent on the grounds by the Potomac, just outside the house.<\/p>\n

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We started off with a Barboursville Brut Ros\u00e9 Cuv\u00e9e 1814.<\/p>\n

The appetizer was Mousse of Duck Liver with Port Gel\u00e9e and Rhubarb Jam in a Hen\u2019s Egg accompanied by a 2013 Linden Vineyards Petit Manseng, Late Harvest from Virginia.<\/p>\n

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Mousse of Duck Liver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second course was Maine Lobster in a Raft of Crisp Potatoes Afloat on a Minted Pea Pur\u00e9e served with a 2015 Matrot Meursault, Blagny, Premier Cru from Burgundy.<\/p>\n

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Maine Lobster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And the final (non-dessert) course was Poulet \u00e0 la Cr\u00e8me \u00e0 la Lafayette. The accompanying wine was a 2014 RdV Vineyards Rendezvous from Virginia.<\/p>\n

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chicken a la lafayette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We concluded with a dessert \u201cgroaning board\u201d consisting of miniature desserts, including lemon possets, cherry pies, blueberry pies, pecan pies, and lemon meringue pies (with additional desserts that I\u2019ve forgotten since recovering from my food coma).<\/p>\n

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the after-dessert goodies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fireworks were also provided at the conclusion of dinner (because, of course).<\/p>\n

For more beautiful photos than I can provide, you can go see The Washingtonian\u2019s coverage of the event: Inn’s 40th celebration<\/a>. (In full disclosure, you can see part of our group in the tent photo.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Inn at Little Washington is celebrating its 40th birthday in grand style this year. Mount Vernon (George Washington\u2019s home for those of you who never learned\/have forgotten your U.S. history) was the site of its most recent celebration. And what better place to celebrate one\u2019s birthday than at the home of the man who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82,25],"tags":[32,331],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-restaurants","tag-inn-at-little-washington","tag-restaurants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-JC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}